Developers: A good idea to MusicOnHold

Asterisk Asterisk General
1

Hi! Sometimes when we are installing Asterisk, we need to configure MOH using a wav file.
Sometimes the Wav files are in one of this cases:

  1. The Wav file is very poor and lower volume.
  2. The Wav file is very good but have a very Hight volume.

My Idea:
Asterisk Developers need to create an option in the file; musiconhold.conf
This option will set the volume lower or high. Check the example of my idea:

As we know, a native configuration of MOH maybe looks like this:

[moh] mode=files directory=/home/default sort=random

Using my idea, the configuration will be:

[moh] mode=files directory=/home/default sort=random volume=5.5 ;<--- Check this little tricky jeje

Well, if Asterisk developers make that option, I need the credits for that: Manuel Nin.

2

Asterisk developers don’t read these forums.

Adjusting the level, once and for all, with offline tools is so easy that doing it online every time doesn’t seem worth the effort.

3

I agree with David. Use sox, so you get the volume of the recordings right in the first place, so Asterisk needs only to play the sound files.

4

sox offers an option called --norm to normalize the audio. So it is very easy to insert it into your audio pipeline.