[asterisk-users] [asterisk-dev] How to play audio file in background in dialplan?

[Steve Edwards]

On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, Yaroslav Panych wrote:

> I have a task. While serving incoming call I should do some longtime
> task(consumes more than few tens of seconds). So I decided to turn on
> background music in order to entertain caller.

Do your processing in an AGI. Before you get into your 'longtime task' 
create another thread to play your file.

When you finish your 'longtime task' join the background thread.

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