[Asterisk-Users] distorted native music on hold -- SOLUTION

[Graeme]

Louis-David and list,

We were having the exact same issue using mpg123: distorted sound, clicks, 
etc.

First, we are using Gentoo, and didn't realise the ztdummy.ko module wasn't 
loaded by default. This is required for the timing.

mpg123 still refused to work correctly (sounds like 2-bit audio -- yuck!), but 
the following script did:

---

#!/bin/bash
kill `pidof -x -o %PPID asterixmohplay sox`
while [ -n "$1" ]; do
    sox -t mp3 "$1" -r 8000 -c 1 -w -s -v 0.5 -t wav -A -V - rate 
2> /var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3/sox.err
    # festival "(SayText \"$1\")\n(quit)\n"
    # say "$1"
    # echo -- "$1" | text2wave -F 8000

    shift
done

--

Save the script somewhere. Place link to script in musiconhold.conf instead of 
mpg123, and without any options.

Use example of "custom", but call it "default". I.e.:

[default]
mode=custom
directory=/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3
;application=/usr/bin/mpg123 -q -r 8000 -f 512 -b 2048 -m -s <-- commented
application=/usr/local/bin/asterixmohplay

All of a sudden, everything worked *perfectly*. Sox used about 5-6% CPU and 
0.5% RAM on a PIII 900MHz / 256MB RAM.

Hope this helps,

Graeme and Michael
mageit.com


P.S. psytrance through Snom 360 kicks!

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:27 pm, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Using asterisk-1.2.1 I am trying to convert my music-on-hold files from
> .wav to alaw:
>
> 	% sox moh.wav -r 8000 -c 1 moh.al resample -ql
>
> The file sounds fine when listened with:
>
> 	% sox mox.al -t ossdsp /dev/dsp
>
> But when listened through asterisk with an alaw SIP phone the sound is
> clicky and too fast.
>
> Did I forget something in my conversion command?