Hello,
One of our customers wants to play MP3 files on IP Phone speakers. I think this could be possible with the multicast paging feature, but I cannot find any Windows software that multicasts MP3 files from PCs to IP Phones.
Do you have any suggestions for this?
Thanks in advance.
In FreePBX, you can upload recordings in multiple formats and they will be auto converted to what Asterisk needs.
Try ffmpeg or gstreamer, both work fine in linux,
I’m not sure how many phones can play mp3’s though so you would probably need to transcode
There is no payload type code for MP3, so I wouldn’t expect any.
Note that this is a multipost, see Multicast Paging Software - General - Asterisk Community
I believe you’re wanting to do something similar I tried to setup when I first moved to Asterisk:
Internal dial a music stream - assigning extensions to streaming music-on-hold for internal calls - FreePBX / Configuration - FreePBX Community Forums
In short, you can use something that will multicast the MP3 and have your phones setup to listen and play that multicast. It works, but it is the same as a multicast page, it will continue to play unless you cancel it, or you have the phone set to allow barge paging or calls.
Chris