[Asterisk-Dev] Background music

[Dorn Hetzel]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 12:48:26PM +0000, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Sunday 12 December 2004 12:28, Satchid wrote:
> 
> > To everybody on this wonderful group.
> > I am considering to use an asterisk PBX in my company with 70 telephones
> > and I would like to play background music trough the speakers of the
> > telephones. When the hook is lifted or when the phone rings, the background
> > music stops till the phone is on hook again (or 'til the phone stops
> > ringing). Is this possible? Or can it easily be programmed. Is it not
> > similar with the ring tone?
> 
> The answer to this depends almost entirely on what type of telephones you 
> intend to use, and whether they support any type of 'tannoy' or 'on-hook 
> announcement' facility - ie: where a remote system (asterisk) can feed an 
> audio signal to be played by the phone.
> 
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> 
> As for the bandwidth / CPU requirements for Asterisk to play music to 70 
> extensions simultaneously.... well, that may require a bigger machine or 
> network connection than you expect :)

multicast music/announcements anyone :)    (I'm gonna have to slap myself for
						saying that)


-Dorn