what sound files to use?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 01:50:51AM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Asterisk sounds tarballs (as of 1.4.14) will be CC-SA-BY-3.0 :-)

And this also brings the question of: what format of sound files
do we ship (in the upcoming 1.6 package. I don't intend to touch the
Lenny package).

Or do we just provide a downloading script for other formats? What about
updates, then?

Useful formats:

gsm: 
  Pros: relatively small, has been around, currently in the tarball
  Cons: Decoding it still requires some CPU time, Relatively bad
    quality.

wav:
  Pros: Easy to play in any player. No ral transcoding needed.
  Cons: The largest.

ulaw/alaw:
  Pros: Smaller than wav, though not as much as gsm, and with little if
    at all quality loss.

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/sounds/

asterisk-core-sounds-en-alaw-current.tar.gz	7.0M
asterisk-core-sounds-en-g722-current.tar.gz	7.5M
asterisk-core-sounds-en-g729-current.tar.gz	1.0M
asterisk-core-sounds-en-gsm-current.tar.gz	1.7M
asterisk-core-sounds-en-sln16-current.tar.gz	29M
asterisk-core-sounds-en-ulaw-current.tar.gz	7.1M
asterisk-core-sounds-en-wav-current.tar.gz	15M

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