[Asterisk-Users] Multiple announcements in a queue ??

[A.J. Paxson]

On 5/15/06 10:55 PM, "Richard Lyman"  wisely said:

> A.J. Paxson wrote:
> 
>> Hi All!
>> 
>> I've really been struggling trying to get around this.  Instead of the same
>> announcement being played over and over again, I want to be able to play
>> more than 1 announcement in a queue.
>> 
>> Does anyone have any brainstorming ideas on how I can try this?
>> 
>> Once a caller is in a queue, I no longer have any control inside that queue.
>> I can have that queue timeout, play a different announcement, and place them
>> back in the queue, but then the caller loses it's place.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> ~~Aaron
>> 
>>  
>> 
> i'd suggest not using 'announcements' and use moh.
> you can setup any number of subdirs and assign that as moh for a queue,
> it just randomly plays the files within the dir. remove -z  for fifo (iirc)
> 
> <>op => mp3:/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3/op,-z      ; randomly play all
> files in op directory
> vr => mp3:/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3/vr,-z        ; randomly play all
> files in vr directory
> 
> 
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That's a good idea.  However, that sounds like a lot of work, as I would
have to split my music on hold songs into 60 or 90 second increments, just
to get my announcements in.

And it wouldn't seem like a smooth transition if, after my announcement, I
go on to a completely different moh song.

1).  Music On Hold for 60 seconds (/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3/queue1/moh1.mp3)
2).  Announcement 1 (/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3/queue1/moh2.mp3)
3).  Go back to Music where we left off, for another 60 seconds
(/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3/queue1/moh3.mp3).
4).  Announcement 2....

Etc.

Unless I failed to understand the point you were making.....

Thanks for the discussion, Richard!

~~Aaron