[asterisk-users] Asterisk and rawplayer

[Ade Vickers]

BJ Weschke wrote:
> 
> Ade Vickers wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >>
> >> Hi Folks,
> >>
> >> I'm using the "rawplayer" program to provide my 
> music-on-hold, and it 
> >> works very well, with one small
> >> drawback: every time I reset Asterisk, for any reason, the 
> MoH resets 
> >> to the beginning of the list. Since MoH isn't used that often, it 
> >> basically means the same track is played over & over again...
> >>
> >> What I'd like to do is have rawplayer continuously playing away in 
> >> the background, even if it's playing to itself only, so there's an 
> >> excellent chance that any caller who will be given the 
> pleasure of my 
> >> MoH choices, will get a different tune to the one s/he heard last 
> >> time...
> >>
> >   
>  This would probably involve some kind of IPC named pipe or 
> other inter process method of getting the data from pt A to 
> pt B to work.  While technically possible, it's not a trivial 
> amount of work to get it going in the codebase. You might be 
> better off with something like streaming MP3 over http or 
> something else like that if you're looking for something with 
> no code modifications. 

Hm, I was ideally looking for something with no code modifications; e.g. a
"phantom" channel which simply played music to itself, setup when Asterisk
starts, or even with manual intervention (e.g. I dial a number, and
rawplayer starts up).

>  Are you really resetting Asterisk that much that this 
> becomes a problem? If so, why?

My Asterisk install is mainly used for inter-office communications, allowing
the Spanish branch to use the UK landline, and testing/experimentation. As
such, I frequently do things which require a full restart, or I get it
tangled up to the point where it needs a restart. The hold music rarely
plays, but because rawplayer always picks the files in the same order, it's
almost always track 1 that's playing when I *do* put someone on hold, or
whatever; I'd prefer it to be a random start point.



Cheers!
Ade.