[Asterisk-Users] Cheap source of music on hold music?

[Karl Putland]

On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 06:48, Brian Johnson wrote:
> I wondered about using streaming content from the internet .. some is available for
> free and some site allow custom music lists.
> 
> I thought it would be cool to access audio from elsewhere in the world and found
> that Reuters (the news source for a lot of media stations) provided streaming audio.
> 
> Then I ran out of time and haven't had a chance to get back to it
> 
> 

Could use something like streamripper to save the stream to a series of
files in your moh dir.  If * recognises new files for moh after start
then it would just continue to play the next file in line.  The you'd
need a cron job to sweep up the older files before your disk filled up.

--Karl

> 
> 
> Jim Archer (jim at archer.net) wrote:
> >
> >Hi all...
> >
> >I have been shopping around and noticed that licensed music on hold music
> >can be a bit expensive if you want to assemble a variety of types.  Does
> >anyone know of an inexpensive source?
> >
> >Thanks...
> >
> >
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