[asterisk-users] using Playback() to play a random sound file

[dave cantera]

here is a way that I solved a similar problem...  have a shell script 
that runs and indexes all the files in the directory into an ascii flat 
file with a format of
#### filename
0001 directory/tt-weasels
0002 directory/tt-monkeys

in your dialplan use the rand() to pick a number, pass it to the shell 
script as an arg[], then the shells script grep()'s and cut()'s the 
filename puts it in a db varaible, the dialplan picks it up and plays 
it...  as you can see, I haven't done it yet :) but, in theory it 
works...  you could skip the dialplan rand() and just use linux rand 
based on the minutes or seconds value for current time...

you don't have to zero fill the index either, I seem to like nicely 
formated files, they are easier for humans to read.
daveC


Steve Edwards wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2007, Jay Austad wrote:
>
>> I've got a directory under /var/lib/asterisk/sounds which contains a 
>> bunch of sound files.  I would like to call the Playback command to 
>> play the files, but I need it to select a file to play randomly.  Is 
>> there any way to do this?
>
> I do this with an AGI.
>
> Thanks in advance,
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