[asterisk-users] Playing MP3's in Asterisk

[Jonathan H]

Thank you,

I'm using ControlPlayback, Playback, Background etc from dialplan and AGI
... not MoH.
All the files are remote so no conversion possible.

Thanks

On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 12:47, Dovid Bender <dovid at telecurve.com> wrote:

> 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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