[asterisk-users] using Playback() to play a random sound file

[Steve Edwards]

On Tue, 1 May 2007, Yuan LIU wrote:

>> From: Steve Edwards <asterisk.org at sedwards.com>
>> Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 21:10:40 -0700 (PDT)
>> 
>> On Tue, 1 May 2007, Jay Austad wrote:
>> 
>>> I've got a directory under /var/lib/asterisk/sounds which contains a bunch 
>>> of sound files.  I would like to call the Playback command to play the 
>>> files, but I need it to select a file to play randomly.  Is there any way 
>>> to do this?
>> 
>> I do this with an AGI.
>
> In 1.4, there's also a dial plan function RAND().

Doesn't RAND return a random number?

How will that help to play back a random file in a directory?

Thanks in advance,
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