Music on Hold

Asterisk Asterisk Support
1

Hello All, I want to do my own music on hold and I did as I’ve found on internet in musiconhold.conf file I added my context myclass after that creat directory
/var/lib/asterisk/moh/music2

[myclass]
mode=files
directory=/var/lib/asterisk/moh/music2

in extensions.conf added

exten => 1,1,Dial(SIP/2001,10)
exten => 1,n,SetMusicOnHold(myclass)
exten => 1,n,Hangup()

but didn’t work why I can’t understand

2

Are there any errors in the console or the log? I’m a newbie myself but I assume an error should appear in the log if it was unable to locate or play a file. Did you need help finding the log or changing how verbose the CLI output is?

3

There are no Errors it simply plays default music on hold as follows, and I’m confused

[default]
mode=files
directory=/var/lib/asterisk/moh/music

but I want to play this music which I put it in

[myclass]
mode=files
directory=/var/lib/asterisk/moh/music2

4

i am not near my asterisk boxes right so i am just guessing
what happens if you comment out the default context, and rename yours to default?
What kind of files are you using?

5

My guess would be the file format. What errors are there in the CLI ? Also if you are using 1.6.X there is a new command for setting musiconhold. voip-info.org/wiki/view/Aste … usicOnHold

6

[quote=“giomax”]There are no Errors it simply plays default music on hold as follows, and I’m confused

[default]
mode=files
directory=/var/lib/asterisk/moh/music

but I want to play this music which I put it in

[myclass]
mode=files
directory=/var/lib/asterisk/moh/music2[/quote]

There still does not appear to be enough information to help you but I will take a shot. The myclass in [myclass] is the context. You can specify an unlimited number of contexts. In your dialplan there is a command called SetMusicOnHold which takes the class parameter which determines which class of music to play to the caller.

;notice 'myclass' matches the context in your conf file exten=B,1,SetMusicOnHold(myclass)

You have 3 options here. You can delete the myclass class from your conf file, change the default class directory value to point to /var/lib/asterisk/moh/music2 and leave your dialplan alone.

OR

You can move your music from /var/lib/asterisk/moh/music2 to /var/lib/asterisk/moh/music and delete the myclass class.

OR

You can update your dialplan to set the class of music you want to play to the caller.