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

[Steve Finkelstein]

Unless there is some native rand() function available in Asterisk, I'd
look into writing a simple AGI using Perl, PHP or Python to return back
a random file to Playback().

More information here: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+AGI

HTH

- sf

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?
> 
> ~jay
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