Play a sound file from a local folder with ARI and Asterisk 14

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Hello,

Is there a way to play a sound file to a channel that is saved locally and not from the default sound folder “/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/en” ? I don’t all playbacks to address to the local folder, I want that in some cases to get the sound file from the default folder and other times to use the local folder.

Thanks for any help!

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Use the full path name.

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I tried that and it did not work… Maybe I should use a different uri scheme and not “sound:” ?

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Do you see permission of path issues in verbose or log?

 same => n,Playback(hello) ; /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/en/hello.EXT
 same => n,Playback(/full/path/to/hello) ; /full/path/to/hello.EXT
 same => n,Playback(custom/hello) ; /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/custom/hello.EXT

Are you omitting the file extension?

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No, I saved the file with .ulaw extension, so that’s not the problem. The problem was I saved the file in a file system that does not communicate with asterisk so that’s why the asterisk could not play that file.

Thank you for trying to help :slight_smile:

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I did notice you mentioned the URI was sound:.
It’s doubtful that Asterisk will know how to use that path.

Guessing you are trying to use the following:

 same => n,Playback(sound:/path/to/hello)

As an alternative solution, maybe you should try a symlink:

shell$ ln -s sound:/path/to /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/custom

 same => n,Playback(custom/hello) ; sound:/path/to/hello.EXT
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