From: Kevin P. Fleming Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 19:48:36 +0000 (+0000) Subject: document the new sound/moh file installation process X-Git-Tag: 1.4.0-beta1~981 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7b2bd1a069546856dfddb5a9f697d02467561460;p=thirdparty%2Fasterisk.git document the new sound/moh file installation process git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@33089 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3 --- diff --git a/UPGRADE.txt b/UPGRADE.txt index b9c238f794..e938e722ea 100644 --- a/UPGRADE.txt +++ b/UPGRADE.txt @@ -43,6 +43,39 @@ If you would like to save your choices and have them applied against all builds, the file can be copied to '~/.asterisk.makeopts' or '/etc/asterisk.makeopts'. +Sound (prompt) and Music On Hold files: + +Beginning with Asterisk 1.4, the sound files and music on hold files supplied for +use with Asterisk have been replaced with new versions produced from high quality +master recordings, and are available in three languages (English, French and +Spanish) and in five formats (WAV (uncompressed), mu-Law, a-Law, GSM and G.729). +In addition, the music on hold files provided by FreePlay Music are now available +in the same five formats, but no longer available in MP3 format. + +The Asterisk 1.4 tarball packages will only include English prompts in GSM format, +(as were supplied with previous releases) and the FreePlay MOH files in WAV format. +All of the other variations can be installed by running 'make menuselect' and +selecting the packages you wish to install; when you run 'make install', those +packages will be downloaded and installed along with the standard files included +in the tarball. + +If for some reason you expect to not have Internet access at the time you will be +running 'make install', you can make your package selections using menuselect and +then run 'make sounds' to download (only) the sound packages; this will leave the +sound packages in the 'sounds' subdirectory to be used later during installation. + +WARNING: Asterisk 1.4 supports a new layout for sound files in multiple languages; +instead of the alternate-language files being stored in subdirectories underneath +the existing files (for French, that would be digits/fr, letters/fr, phonetic/fr, +etc.) the new layout creates one directory under /var/lib/asterisk/sounds for the +language itself, then places all the sound files for that language under that +directory and its subdirectories. This is the layout that will be created if you +select non-English languages to be installed via menuselect, HOWEVER Asterisk does +not default to this layout and will not find the files in the places it expects them +to be. If you wish to use this layout, make sure you put 'languageprefix=yes' in your +/etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf file, so that Asterisk will know how the files were +installed. + PBX Core: * The (very old and undocumented) ability to use BYEXTENSION for dialing @@ -265,11 +298,3 @@ Installation: ASTETCDIR /usr/local/etc/asterisk ASTBINDIR /usr/local/bin/asterisk ASTSBINDIR /usr/local/sbin/asterisk - -Sounds: - -* The phonetic sounds directory has been removed from the asterisk-sounds - package because they are now included directly in Asterisk. However, it is - important to note that the phonetic sounds that existed in asterisk-sounds - used a different naming convention than the sounds in Asterisk. For example, - instead of alpha.gsm and bravo.gsm, Asterisk has a_p.gsm and b_p.gsm.