Music on Hold

Music on hold can be in WAV or MP3 format. To play an MP3 file you must have mod_shout enabled on the ‘Modules’ tab. You can adjust the volume of the MP3 audio from the ‘Settings’ tab. For best performance upload 16 bit, 8/16/32/48 kHz mono WAV files.

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  • Click the edit pencil on the right to customize music on hold options. This can be done on each kHz group.
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  • Name: Choose a name. (default is needed for the defauly Music on Hold.)
  • Path: Path to where the music is.
  • Shuffle: True or False (If true and multiple music files will shuffle the play order.)
  • Sampling: The rate the music is encoded in.
  • Channels: Mono or Stereo.
  • Interval: Silence between files playing in milliseconds.
  • Timer Name: Best to keep as soft.
  • Chime File: The file you want to “chime in” while Music on Hold is playing.
  • Chime Frequency: Seconds between each “chime in”.
  • Chime Maximum: Max number attempts to “chime in”.
  • Domain: Select Global for all domains or the specific domain for only that domain.

Music on Hold Tips

  • When a new music on hold category mod_local_stream will be restarted. If it is busy then it will not restart automatically. A manual restart of the module is required when it is not in use. The module can be restarted from the Menu -> Advanced -> Modules or from the console and fs_cli with following command.
reload mod_local_stream
  • Each music on hold category is given a name. If the domain is set to global the name will be the name in the example below the protocol that is used is local_stream and the music on hold category is default and domain is set to global.
local_stream://default
  • It is possible that a domain or tenant can have its own category of music. In this example the name is ‘custom’ and the domain was assigned automatically to the current domain.
local_stream://domain_name/custom