Solved FreePBX Asterisk Music on Hold Streaming Sources
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Just about everyone that uses our conference system is complaining about the stock music on hold that is included. Personally I agree the music is dated; however, it is free and what came preloaded.
I am curious to see what anyone else is doing for this. I was looking at easyonhold.com today and setup their demo stream in under 5 minutes which is good quality and not the same old boring.
Anyone have experience (pricing) for these guys or other alternatives?
Thank
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Tagging @art_of_shred, @Mike-Ralston and @scottalanmiller
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We just use the generic
We don't really keep people on hold. -
I found some decent creative commons music in the past and put it on the system. IIRC there is a website dedicated to CC music-on-hold stuff. Alternatively you could put informational messages about your products and services for the MOH as well. It was something my former employer wanted to work on.
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@scottalanmiller said:
We just use the generic
We don't really keep people on hold.Ouch
Yea this is just for the people that decide they want to dial in 15 minutes early to a conference call (meetme). We have leader wait turned on. Not convinced we need to invest dollars here but it has wiggled its way to the C-levels so here I am. -
@donaldlandru said:
Just about everyone that uses our conference system is complaining about the stock music on hold that is included. Personally I agree the music is dated; however, it is free and what came preloaded.
I am curious to see what anyone else is doing for this. I was looking at easyonhold.com today and setup their demo stream in under 5 minutes which is good quality and not the same old boring.
Anyone have experience (pricing) for these guys or other alternatives?
Thank
I looked at what it would cost to get service for things like MOH - you have to handle all of these yearly license with at least 2 if not three different companies that handle the licensing for music. I think it was going to cost something like $1000/year before the streaming service.
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This guy has a setup for using shoutcast, whether or not it works I don't know.
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Could someone ad the tag MOH to the OP?
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@Dashrender said:
@donaldlandru said:
Just about everyone that uses our conference system is complaining about the stock music on hold that is included. Personally I agree the music is dated; however, it is free and what came preloaded.
I am curious to see what anyone else is doing for this. I was looking at easyonhold.com today and setup their demo stream in under 5 minutes which is good quality and not the same old boring.
Anyone have experience (pricing) for these guys or other alternatives?
Thank
I looked at what it would cost to get service for things like MOH - you have to handle all of these yearly license with at least 2 if not three different companies that handle the licensing for music. I think it was going to cost something like $1000/year before the streaming service.
Once of my clients uses Mood Media (formerly Muzak) to stream in their overhead music for $35/month. It is streaming in via a web browser. I wonder if that could be redone into something an asterisk PBX could handle. /ponders
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Noticed that this one is still hanging around. Did you find what you needed here?
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Cleaning up my old post and marking it solved. After taking options and cost to the business we ended up staying with the bundled music.
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@donaldlandru said in FreePBX Asterisk Music on Hold Streaming Sources:
Cleaning up my old post and marking it solved. After taking options and cost to the business we ended up staying with the bundled music.
Thanks for circling back
