[Asterisk-Users] Music conferences ?

[John Todd]

A kludge would be to use the auto-call features within Asterisk to 
"fake" an inbound call with an MP3 channel in it into a conference. 
See "/usr/src/asterisk/sample.call".

For audio control, I would suggest that you set up a shoutcast 
reflector on your local system so you can have an external system do 
re-connects without interrupting the call if the network flakes out 
for short periods of time.

Further hints would be to put an absolute timeout on the call at an 
hour or so, and then have a script re-initiate the call at the end of 
the timeout.  That way, if things stop working, there is an 
auto-renew feature that sets things straight.

You can add inbound lines to conferences as "muted" - look at the docs.

JT


>Hi folks,
>
>I have been wondering about different processor loads and which might
>be a more efficient way of doing this....
>
>Currently we can set up a shoutcast station as an extension
>
>exten => 3334,1,MP3Player,http://radio.nq.net:8000/
>
>Now I was wondering if there was a way we can add a music extension to
>a conference (send only) and then set up an extension into the
>conference as listen only ??
>
>if so, how ? and if it could be done, which would be lesser load on the
>machine ??
>
>One other point....
>
>Is there some way to ensure that certain setups are done on a startup
>or restart ??
>
>the example is that the music gets added to the conference....
>
>  Gary