[asterisk-users] Looped message playback

[Earle Clubb]

John Marvin wrote:
> Earle Clubb wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to play an audio file to a phone an arbitrary number of 
>> times.  The audio is a five-second segment of a sine wave.  I need 
>> this to be played repeatedly without gaps between playbacks.  I've 
>> tried doing this in the dial plan, e.g.:
>>
>> exten => s,1,Playback(tonefile)
>> exten => s,2,Goto(1)
>>
>> but there is too long of a gap between the playbacks.  Does anyone 
>> know of a way to achieve this?
> 
> Well, I don't have a solution for the general case (looped playback), 
> but if you are only playing a sine wave, couldn't you use Playtones() 
> instead? It has the ability to play a tone indefinitely until you tell 
> it to stop.
> 
> John

I thought about that.  The problem is that I need to be able to play any 
kind of tone (e.g. warble, etc.).  I'm only using a pure tone right now 
because it's easy to hear the gaps.

Earle