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Playing recording external media

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1. CLI examples​

1.1 Play WAV into a conference​

Assuming that a conference named freeswitch is configured, and at least one party is connected:

freeswitch@host> conference freeswitch play /tmp/foo.wav

foo.wav will have to be 8kz, 16-bit, 1 channel, otherwise the audio will sound distorted because the timing will be wrong. (At least when testing with a Sipura ATA)

1.2 Play local MP3 into a conference​

To play MP3 files, mod_shout needs to be built and loaded.

Assuming that a conference named freeswitch is configured, and at least one party is connected:

freeswitch@host> conference freeswitch play /tmp/foo.mp3

MP3 can be encoded at either 8Khz or 44,100khz, and it will sound correct in both cases.

1.3 Broadcast WAV into live call​

Issue show channels at the console, find the UUID for the call you are interested in, and use

uuid_broadcast <uuid> /path/to/file.wav both

2. Python examples​

2.1 Play remote MP3​

To play MP3 files, mod_shout needs to be built and loaded.

Create a Python script that calls

session.playFile("shout://some.server.com/file.mp3")

See mod_python for a sample script this can be plugged into.

3. Dialplan examples​

  <extension name="wavs">
    <condition field="destination_number" expression="^2009$">
      <action application="playback" data="/path/to/your.wav"/>
    </condition>
  </extension>