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0 pointsjoemi6y ago0 comments

My work has a really old phone system which I became the admin of. I discovered it had an audio input for Music-On-Hold, so I set up a spare RPi Zero that I had as a music player so that we'd have hold music. Low effort but wonderful improvement for work. Every now and then I go back and tinker with it to improve it a bit. (Next step is to make it controllable via a web interface.)

I have a RPi 3B+ that I use for some emulation, though I hardly ever play with it. Setting it up was plenty interesting, though.

And I have a Zero and a Zero W that I use for random tinkering/testing, both semi-permanently attached to a breadboard for ease of use.

(I've got a big list of projects I'd like to try or develop, but the above are the only things I've done so far.)

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youeeeeeediot6y ago

Did you also acquire an ASCAP/BMI license for the music-on-hold? A lot of people are unaware that is classified as a public performance of the music and requires a license. Unless you are playing royalty-free music, in which case you are fine.

joemiOP6y ago

I purposefully sought out royalty-free music. As the person who set it up, I did not want to risk being culpable for anything. (When it was first set up, my boss kept requesting that I add various catchy songs he heard on the radio to it, and I kept having to explain it's not legal.)

knd7756y ago

I use the hold music that zendesk made. I think it's pretty neat. I doubt anyone really loves it, but no one seems to dislike it.

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