Current status of custom audio files on ASL3?

AllStarLink
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Setup Information

********** AllStarLink [ASL] Version Info **********

OS : Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
OS Kernel : 6.12.85+deb13-amd64

Asterisk : 22.8.2+asl3-3.8.3-1.deb13
ASL [app_rpt] : 3.8.3

Package Version

allmon3 1.8.1-1.deb13
asl3 3.17-1.deb13
asl3-asterisk 2:22.8.2+asl3-3.8.3-1.deb13
asl3-asterisk-config 2:22.8.2+asl3-3.8.3-1.deb13
asl3-asterisk-modules 2:22.8.2+asl3-3.8.3-1.deb13
asl3-menu 1.18-1.deb13
asl3-update-nodelist 2.0.0-1.deb13
asl-apt-repos 2.0-1.deb13
dahdi 1:3.1.0-2.1
dahdi-linux 1:3.4.0-11.asl.deb13

Inquiry

What is the current status of storing and playing custom audio files in ASL3? I have an 8 KHz ulaw file I have tried to incorporate into an extensions.conf stanza but no matter where I put it (/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/...) or the /usr/local symbolic links it just gets ignored. I've made sure the user and group were set for asterisk, but nada...

I saw a bug report on custom audio files from last year but did not follow it to a resolution. Anybody know?

Carl/K6CRS

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Asterisk will search for audio files in the /usr/share/asterisk/sounds/en directory.

If, in the /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf file, you have sounds_search_custom_dir = yes then asterisk will also look in the /usr/share/asterisk/sounds/custom (generally symlink'd to /usr/local/share/asterisk/sounds) directory.

And, yes, there was an issue where we were not looking for sound files in the "custom" directory. That issue was fixed in 3.6.2.

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Thank you Allan. This worked.

For the sake of anybody after me, they also need to make sure of the following:

  • Make sure it's a compliant u-Law file. Go to g711.org and convert it online if you have to.
  • change the file suffix to .ulaw
  • you don't need the file suffix in the file name when adding it to the extensions.conf

Now I have beautiful custom audio files.

Carl/K6CRS

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alternative to online conversion is to use sox on the ASL device itself?
there is also soxi to examine the audio file properties

anyone have a sox wav to u-law example handy?