Getting Creative with Hold Music
A while back I wanted to configure my PBX to tell me which menu item was selected in my IVR before I answered, so I knew how to greet the caller. So I set up queues on my asterisk system and realized that people were forced to listen to hold music instead of ringing.
Recently one of my customers commented on my horrible hold music and how they had to hear the same gut wrenching tune every time they called me. [It is that bad world-beat.mp3 that comes with a stock Trixbox install]. So I decided to look for some royalty free or “open source” hold music.
A quick search on google presented about a trillion results of which required me to pay for most of the music or sign up… I refined my search and google adwords ended up spotting me exactly what I was looking for. I found this collection of 8 wav files that are wickedly hilarious for hold music and just a little more entertaining that the stock Trixbox ones, I still had to give them my email address but I am willing to take a load of spam for the sanity of my clients.
The music is still horrible but at least it is funny, I am excited to hear that customers reaction when she hears my new playlist.
you didn’t post the .wav files. Could you please put up a link to the 8 .wav files you speak of.
Yeah, sorry bout that. I will dump them on one of my unused domains at Dreamhost.
Here is a link - http://aptfdr.com/hold_music