[Asterisk-Users] My Boss wants background music!!!!

[Jay Milk]

Interesting requirement.  Depending on your site, you may consider
alternative solutions.  If you have individual offices, I suppose the
PBX route would be the best way to go; however, if you have a shared
space (cube-farm, call-room, whatever), maybe you can share the music
source?  In that case, I'd look into slimp3s with a slimserver, and an
inexpensive shelf-system as the amplifier.  www.slimdevices.com would
have some more pointers.  If you have dropped ceilings (as must
businesses do), you could even run ceiling speakers and hook them up to
a slimp3 or other music source via an inexpensive car-amplifier.  Oh
yeah, multiple slimp3s can be synchronized.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Satchid [mailto:satchid at telenet.be] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 3:49 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] My Boss wants background music!!!!
> 
> 
> Dear Members,
> 
> I am searching for a new PBX for the company. My choice is 
> Astrisk. My Boss wants background music via all the 
> telephones. This is done in a conventional PBX that he wants, 
> but I can use the Asterisk PBX if it can do this also. 
> As I said he needs background music on every telephone this 
> is not to be mistaken with music on hold. 
> The bit stream is an MP3 file of 8 Kbs. At the server it 
> might be at the maximum 570Kbs if it has to send it 
> individually to each telephone. 
> The network: 10/100 layer-3 switches with QoS on a 1000Mbs backbone.
> 
> Please, is there a way to get this done, otherwise I have to 
> say goodbye to Asterisk (unless my boss gives in).
> 
> Thank you all
> 
> Willy