[Asterisk-Users] Useful patch in the bugtracker: streaming MOH

[Steven Critchfield]

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 02:31, John Todd wrote:
> So, Tilghman has put a particularly useful patch in the bugtracker: 
> streaming music-on-hold is now supported.  You can now specify .mp3 
> streams to be played back as MOH in the various places where MOH is 
> used.  Hopefully, Mark will install into the main CVS tree shortly.
> 
> http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000413
> 
> This allows you to use the very sophisticated mp3 streaming audio 
> tools that exist for broadcast (Open Source as well as commercial) to 
> build your own mini-stations, complete with advertisements, annoying 
> product placements, and insipid corporate banter while you have 
> people trapped in a hold queue, helpless and unable to do anything 
> but listen to the drivel that you wish to push into their ears.

Not to mention that this now lets people hook up a outside sound source
via the soundcard and use tools to stream that input appropriately. This
was requested by those who wanted to stream a local radio station. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>