We've Moved! Please visit our new and improved forum over at our new portal: https://portal.plumvoice.com/hc/en-us/community/topics

Renaming Audio Files in Repository

Questions and answers about IVR programming for Plum DEV

Moderators: admin, support

Post Reply
lfortnam
Posts: 16
Joined: Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:46 am
Location: Birmingham
Contact:

Renaming Audio Files in Repository

Post by lfortnam »

Hi Support,

Is it possible to rename the files held in the repository rather than them being the pinnumber_?.wav where ? is a number. Reason being that I wish to be able to programmatically be able to call hour_1.wav, hour_2.wav etc rather than having to have a list of which file is holding the 1 and the 2 etc. I know I could do this by referring out to files on my server but due to latency etc I would rather the audio files be held locally to the VXML server.

Can I FTP in some how to rename the files????

Many Thanks,

Lee

support
Posts: 3632
Joined: Mon Jun 02, 2003 3:47 pm
Location: Boston, MA
Contact:

Renaming Audio Files in Repository impossible with IVR sys

Post by support »

Hi,

Sorry, but it is not possible to rename the files held in the repository since they are programmed to be named that way. Also, it is not possible to FTP since the IVR platform does not provide FTP access to any of those files.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Regards,
Plum Support
Last edited by support on Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.

lfortnam
Posts: 16
Joined: Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:46 am
Location: Birmingham
Contact:

Post by lfortnam »

If you request a remote audio file, does it get cached on your server or is the request and download made every single time the file is required?

Just thinking, rather than there being a lot of bandwidth taken up by shipping audio files about, and if I cannot rename the files on your system that if I host them at our end if this will remove some of the latency issues we might experience.

Also, are the wav files effectively prefetched before the call is initiated or once the call is connected, there could be about 200kb worth of files for each call and this might take a few seconds to download. there is already a pause of 3 to 4 seconds whilst it detects the answering machine or not so to extend this is not an option.

Regards,

Lee

support
Posts: 3632
Joined: Mon Jun 02, 2003 3:47 pm
Location: Boston, MA
Contact:

IVR link for caching files

Post by support »

Hi,

For remote audio files, if you set maxage=0, the file will never be cached.

You can read more about caching files here:

http://www.plumvoice.com/docs/dev/devel ... ce:caching

To answer your IVR question about the .wav files, the first time you call in, you will have to wait for those 200kb of files to be cached. However, every IVR call that comes in afterwards will have all the .wav files prefetched.

Regards,
Plum Support

Post Reply