478908 - remove Rick Astley from MoCo phone lines

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard :: Servicedesk, task)

Description

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

too many times have I sat through the smooth, deep tones of Rick Astley while waiting for a meeting. It is time to excise this music once and for all from the entire phone system. Please. I beg you.

Comment 1

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

I'd rather listen to Rick Astley than some of the hideous stuff we have as hold music.

Comment 2

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

whups, somehow changed the assigned field.

sheppy: I bet you're thinking of David Byrne. I kind of agree. Separate bug or can that ride along on this one?

Comment 3

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

You know, if you don't like sitting through hold music, you could just say goodbye.  Or are you never gonna do that even tho you hate the music?

Comment 4

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

We should ask Rick what he thinks of this.

Comment 5

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

I am staunchly against removing Rick Astley, but as a compromise I would accept the removal if Banana Phone is added to the rotation.

Comment 6

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I am staunchly against removing Rick Astley, but as a compromise I would accept
> the removal if Banana Phone is added to the rotation.
+1

Love that song

Comment 7

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I am staunchly against removing Rick Astley, but as a compromise I would accept
> the removal if Banana Phone is added to the rotation.

A fair compromise. I would support this.

Comment 8

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Feel free to provide alternatives.  Having it on our hold music is considered a public performance, so requirements are that it be public domain or freely licensable (such as Creative Commons), which means technically the Rick Astley isn't quite legal anyway, and should go away just for that reason.

If you want to browse what's there already I just made it available at https://ringring.office.mozilla.org/moh/

I nuked Rick...  some smartass put him in the default category, which plays to customers and business partners, too... not exactly smart. :)

Comment 9

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

We should probably create a separate music class for the conference rooms or something and can put the other cool stuff in that one instead of abusing default.

Comment 10

[rick astley]

never gonna give you up
never gonna let you down...

Comment 11

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

(In reply to comment #9)
> We should probably create a separate music class for the conference rooms or
> something and can put the other cool stuff in that one instead of abusing
> default.

thanks dave. If I can figure out my password to ringring, I'll try loading up some publically-licensed ccmixter and archive.org content.

to those of you who tried to stymie this bug, you're on notice!