Music on Hold

The menu Services ‣ IPBX ‣ IPBX services ‣ On-hold Music 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.