[Gllug] re: telephone-switchboard music-on-hold

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On Mon 22 Sep, t.clarke bloviated thus:

> I am wondering what sources of 'music' might be available on CD which would
> not require us to pay out these licence fees  - even recorded bird-song might
> be preferable.  Alternatively, if I were to twist our local Church organists
> arm to record a few choice pieces onto a recordable CD, would this get around
> the licensing requirements ??

The recording must be in the public domain or explicitely allow you to
use it.  The music in the recording must also satisfy these
requirements, which means either out of copyright music or music that
has explicitely been created for this purpose.

Personally I find music on hold excruciatingly tedious.  If I'm
listening to some other type of music, it clashes with that on the
music-on-hold.  If one of my colleagues puts the held call on
hands-free to get on with something else while they wait, it bugs
everyone in the office.

I would vastly prefer silence with a reminder every 30 seconds that
the call is still there -- ideally in the form of a single beep.

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