Music on Hold¶
The menu
leads to the list of available on-hold musics.Categories¶
Available categories are:
files: play sound files. Formats supported:
Format Name Filename Extension G.719 .g719 G.723 .g723 .g723sf G.726 .g726-40 .g726-32 .g726-24 .g726-16 G.729 .g729 GSM .gsm iLBC .ilbc Ogg Vorbis .ogg G.711 A-law .alaw .al .alw G.711 μ-law .pcm .ulaw .ul .mu .ulw G.722 .g722 Au .au Siren7 .siren7 Siren14 .siren14 SLN .raw .sln .sln12 .sln16 .sln24 .sln32 .sln44 .sln48 .sln96 .sln192 VOX .vox WAV .wav .wav16 WAV GSM .WAV .wav49 See
asterisk -rx 'module show like format'
. The on-hold music will always play from the start.mp3: play MP3 files.
The on-hold music will play from an arbitrary position on the track, it will not play from the start.
custom: do not play sound files. Instead, run an external process. That process must send on stdout the same binary format than WAV files.
Example process:
/usr/bin/mpg123 -s --mono -y -f 8192 -r 8000 http://streaming.example.com/stream.mp3
Note
Processes run by custom categories are started as soon as the category is created and will only stop when the category is deleted. This means that on-hold music fed from online streaming will constantly be receiving network traffic, even when there are no calls.