[Asterisk-Users] Weird experience with MOH

[BK [address only for mailing lists]]

On Saturday, July 12, 2003, at 01:39 PM, Matthew Hardeman wrote:

> If you're on a RedHat system, mpg321 is installed by default, and is
> symlinked to as mpg123...
>
> So, it can easily look like you have mpg123, but you really have 
> mpg321...

Interesting thought, but according to the man pages I really do have 
mpg123. Also the package manager shows me that mpg123 is installed and 
mpg321 is installable. BTW, I am running Mandrake 9.1 not RH. Besides 
it's now working without installing anything since when I had the 
problem that it didn't work.

Anyway, I found that neither a reload nor a shutdown and restart of 
Asterisk will actually cause Asterisk to recognise any changes in the 
directories where the mp3 files are.

I have added in more and more mp3s now but Asterisk continued to loop 
through the initial three I put in there before I noticed that MOH is 
actually working. It seems you have to change the class in 
musiconhold.conf to another class with a different path, do a reload and 
then change it back, do another reload in order for Asterisk to take 
notice of additional files.

This behaviour offers - though not a full explanation - but a hint as to 
why my MOH didn't work initially. There may have been something going 
on - such as some cache timing out - that made it eventually kick in.

rgds
bk