[Asterisk-Users] Multiple announcements in a queue ??
Richard Lyman
pchammer at dynx.net
Mon May 15 21:15:10 MST 2006
A.J. Paxson wrote:
>On 5/15/06 10:55 PM, "Richard Lyman" wisely said:
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>>A.J. Paxson wrote:
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>>>Hi All!
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>>>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?
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>>>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.
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>>>Any ideas?
>>>
>>>~~Aaron
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>>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)
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>><>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.
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>And it wouldn't seem like a smooth transition if, after my announcement, I
>go on to a completely different moh song.
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>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....
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>Etc.
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>Unless I failed to understand the point you were making.....
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>Thanks for the discussion, Richard!
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>~~Aaron
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