[asterisk-users] Playing MP3's in Asterisk

[Dovid Bender]

John,

In what application are you using mp3's? In my case it was for music on
hold. I simply had asterisk call ffmpeg to play the files (to get around
all the issues). Where I have local files I convert them over to wav or gsm
and call it a day.


On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 4:33 AM Jonathan H <lardconcepts at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Returning to the issue of mp3 support in Asterisk, it seems it is using a
> build from 1997?!
> http://svn.digium.com/svn/thirdparty/mp3/trunk/layer3.c
>
> I have the same problems as everyone with the mp3 add-on, but now a new
> one:
>
>    - "mp3/interface.c: Junk at the beginning of frame 49443304" for ALL
>    mp3 files, even when debug/verbose is off.
>    - Very quiet playback compared to slin, so I have to control the
>    outgoing volume by +7 for mp3 playback.
>    - Now I find it chokes on mp3s which have a png cover art - this is
>    perfectly valid in mp3 id3
>
> But I still need to use ControlPlayback from dialplan and f-agi.
>
> I started going down a rabbit-hole of ARI media and Audiosocket etc, for
> example:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjduXbZZEgI
> https://github.com/CyCoreSystems/audiosocket
>
> These all seem to add a fair amount of complexity for controlling playback
> - for example:
>
> https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/ARI+and+Media%3A+Part+2+-+Playbacks#ARIandMedia:Part2-Playbacks-Controllingplaybacks
> And I need to know the current cplaybackoffset at any given time.
>
> I was thinking: to keep it simple, is there a way to tell Asterisk to use
> a different mpg123 (the system one - my currently installed version from
> 2020!) instead of the Asterisk build?
>
> I can live with the "junk" warnings and the quiet playback, but it cannot
> be crashing on valid id3 content (and I have no control over the remotely
> hosting files).
>
> Thanks for any pointers in the right direction!
>
> On Tue, 3 Sept 2019 at 16:20, Dovid Bender <dovid at telecurve.com> wrote:
>
>> Ludovic,
>>
>> Currently using Asterisk 14.5.0 with
>> [root at a1-c2-nyc3 ~]# rpm -qa | grep mpg123
>> mpg123-1.25.6-1.el7.x86_64
>> mpg123-libs-1.25.6-1.el7.x86_64
>> mpg123-devel-1.25.6-1.el7.x86_64
>> [root at a1-c2-nyc3 ~]#
>> Should I be using a newer version of mpg123?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 11:11 AM <ldrolez at free.fr> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi !
>>>
>>> Which Asterisk version do you use?
>>> Asterisk uses the mpg123 library.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Ludovic
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 03:27:59PM -0400, Dovid Bender wrote:
>>> >    Hi,
>>> >    Does anyone know what code (if any)Â format_mp3 uses? I am trying
>>> to play
>>> >    a MP3 (e.g.
>>>
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