Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie: How to copy track from CD for MOH without getting "Junk at beginning of frame ..."

2009-08-19 Thread Steve Edwards
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: >> Convert the file to the native codec(s) in which it will be played. >> > Alex, could you please elaborate on this? I am no audio guy. > On Media player, I can rip it into mp3 or wav or windows media audio. > Which one should I use? Neither. If y

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie: How to copy track from CD for MOH without getting "Junk at beginning of frame ..."

2009-08-19 Thread Eric Fort
Probably none of the ones you list, though I believe wav files are uncompressed. Use SOX http://sox.sourceforge.net/ under Linux, Windows or OSX and RIP/Convert the files to match the codec you are using for calls. If you are accepting calls that use the GSM codec then have a set of MOH files enc

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie: How to copy track from CD for MOH without getting "Junk at beginning of frame ..."

2009-08-19 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
> Yep, agreed. > Convert the file to the native codec(s) in which it will be played. > Alex, could you please elaborate on this? I am no audio guy. On Media player, I can rip it into mp3 or wav or windows media audio. Which one should I use? ___ -- B

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie: How to copy track from CD for MOH without getting "Junk at beginning of frame ..."

2009-08-19 Thread Alex Balashov
Steve Edwards wrote: > On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: > >> I was copying tracks from CD into mp3 files so that I could use it in >> Asterisk 1.4.21.2 MOH. >> >> Are there any Asterisk+Audio expert that can offer me some advice? > > Don't use MP3. Why would you want to burn CPU cyc

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie: How to copy track from CD for MOH without getting "Junk at beginning of frame ..."

2009-08-19 Thread Steve Edwards
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: > I was copying tracks from CD into mp3 files so that I could use it in > Asterisk 1.4.21.2 MOH. > > Are there any Asterisk+Audio expert that can offer me some advice? Don't use MP3. Why would you want to burn CPU cycles decompressing the same stuff

[asterisk-users] Newbie: How to copy track from CD for MOH without getting "Junk at beginning of frame ..."

2009-08-19 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I was copying tracks from CD into mp3 files so that I could use it in Asterisk 1.4.21.2 MOH. (BTW, I have already secured proper license to play MOH to callers.) I used MS Media Player version 11 and rip it at 128kbps (smallest) but whenever I listen to MOH, I saw the following message on the Aste