Re: [asterisk-users] MoH WAY too loud

2007-05-22 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Monday 21 May 2007 3:38 pm, Doug Lytle wrote: Doing a 'man sox' does wonders: The question, however, is is Asterisk playing them louder than normal, or are they recorded too loudly to begin with? Adjusting volume gains on these files is the LAST thing you should do. Determine what the

[asterisk-users] MoH WAY too loud

2007-05-21 Thread Jay Moore
Hi folks! I'm having a problem where my music on hold is just blaring to my callers. I've tried several different formats (converting using mpg123 and sox) and adjusted my musiconhold.conf to use quietmp3, to no avail. Every file plays way too loud. I did notice that sox has a -v flag for

Re: [asterisk-users] MoH WAY too loud

2007-05-21 Thread Doug Lytle
Jay Moore wrote: Hi folks! I did notice that sox has a -v flag for adjusting volume, but danged if I can find documentation online that'll tell me what parameter to pass. Doing a 'man sox' does wonders: -v volume Change amplitude (floating point); less than 1.0 decreases,

Re: [asterisk-users] MoH WAY too loud

2007-05-21 Thread Jay Moore
Doug, Thanks for the reply. Immediately after hitting send I found exactly what I was looking for. Don't know why I didn't consider doing a 'man sox' earlier. I must be getting senile. ;) That said, I altered my initial .gsm files and made them 75% quieter (-v .25). I replaced my loud

Re: [asterisk-users] MoH WAY too loud

2007-05-21 Thread Matt Riddell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jay Moore wrote: Hi folks! I'm having a problem where my music on hold is just blaring to my callers. I've tried several different formats (converting using mpg123 and sox) and adjusted my musiconhold.conf to use quietmp3, to no avail. Every