[asterisk-users] No music on hold?

[Jerry]

> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:04:23PM -0500, Jerry wrote:
>> Heya,
>>
>> > I've got Asterisk 1.2.10 up and running on Debian using the back
>> ports.
>> > I noticed that it didn't come with mpg123 or depend on it and I
>> believe
>> > I read somewhere that asterisk now handles it's own mp3 playback?  Is
>> > this true?  If so I must have a problem, because I hear no music when
>> > putting someone on hold.  When looking at the console when putting
>> > someone on hold, I see the following:
>> >
>> >     -- Started music on hold, class 'default', on channel
>> > 'IAX2/voicepulse01-3'
>> >     -- Stopped music on hold on IAX2/voicepulse01-3
>> >
>> > It says music starts and then it instantly stops.  Any ideas?
>>
>> Do you have asterisk-addons installed? That could be the issue.
>
> Why?

The OP is looking to play MP3s, and unless I misunderstood the
instructions on the Wiki, addons is required (format_mp3) to play MP3's on
1.2.x.

Is that not the case?

J.