[asterisk-users] Playing mp3-files – will it be OK?

[Jared Smith]

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 17:50 +0200, harry wrote:
> The PBX is connected to an ISDN-30 connection. Are there any modules
> for playing MP3 files, so I can use them with commands like Play() and
> Background()?

If I were you, I'd transcode the files to alaw and play back the alaw
version, so that Asterisk doesn't have to transcode them for every call
(which is a waste of CPU cycles).

If you *really* want to use MP3 files, you'll need to load the
format_mp3 module from asterisk-addons package.

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Jared Smith
Community Relations Manager
Digium, Inc.