| Your hold music. Hi, I'm just wondering who's child created that horrible hold music? It's what a 30 second piece then it loops on itself. trust me, after 30 minutes on hold listening to that you either don't care what the problem was you'd just do anything to make that music stop or you're ready to make yourself deaf so you don't have to hear it for a minute longer.. my god i'd rather listen to thrash metal where they scream and you have no bloody idea what the hell they're screaming. |
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| said by myearshurt :Hi, I'm just wondering who's child created that horrible hold music? It's what a 30 second piece then it loops on itself. trust me, after 30 minutes on hold listening to that you either don't care what the problem was you'd just do anything to make that music stop or you're ready to make yourself deaf so you don't have to hear it for a minute longer.. my god i'd rather listen to thrash metal where they scream and you have no bloody idea what the hell they're screaming.
lol maybe that's the plan to clear the queue  |
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 MacGyverDon't Waste Your EnergyPremium,ExMod 2003-05
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You can blame SOCAN for the demise of the cool music. »www.socan.ca/tariff/SOC_11007_Ta···LISH_15B. It gets expensive really quick if a company has a lot of lines.
I use the Direct forum for everything so I don't have to wait on hold. |
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| Informative link, thanks. I never really knew of the costs until now. Yikes! What about simply using the radio on hold instead? |
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 HiVoltPremium
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Toronto, ON
kudos:17 | reply to MacGyver
We just have a radio station hooked up. |
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 TSI MartinPremium
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Chatham, ON
kudos:23 | reply to myearshurt
Hey guys,
We're aware & looking at a solution. It's simply part of the kinks that need to be ironed out.
Regards,
Martin |
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 rjbrakePremium
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Petawawa, ON | reply to HiVolt
That's not allowed I'm afraid, unless you've licensed the station you're broadcasting. For example, if you wanted to play XM radio, you need a Business account which includes licensing to play the station on your MOH service. |
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koreybReplace the CRTC NOW
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said by HiVolt:We just have a radio station hooked up.
Which is actually against socan rules as well technically.
XM/Sirius offers a service for businesses that covers copyrights, as it's part of the bill payment. It's only 35 bucks. |
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koreybReplace the CRTC NOW
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said by TSI Martin:Hey guys,
We're aware & looking at a solution. It's simply part of the kinks that need to be ironed out.
Regards,
Martin
Just get XM/Sirius for business.. 35 bucks a month, and you get real music, and your butt is covered for rights issues. |
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HiVoltPremium
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said by koreyb:said by HiVolt:We just have a radio station hooked up.
Which is actually against socan rules as well technically. Pfft. they can pound sand. I think we have Boom 97.3 on it for a few years now. If someone ever bothers us i'll just put it back to the "beep beep" thing lol... |
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rjbrakePremium
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Petawawa, ON | They'll find you eventually. |
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 mlernerPremium
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Nepean, ON
kudos:5 | reply to myearshurt
You can get Rocky and Marc to record a few duets then SOCAN won't get any licensing money. |
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said by rjbrake:They'll find you eventually.
Curious, how exactly?
Odds are in his favour they won't. |
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said by rjbrake:They'll find you eventually.
I doubt it. it's a small company.
And if they do, i'll just stream some american stream off the net. SOCAN can suck it then.
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I say play some midi's from demoscene! |
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HiVoltPremium
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Toronto, ON
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1 edit | I'll play the fuckin windows login sound before i pay shit to those at SOCAN. |
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koreybReplace the CRTC NOW
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They actually randomly call... I've had a few friends who run small businesses who got caught... Socan sent a notice and they simply got XM for Business. Beep Beep doesn't work for someone like Teksavvy, who requires people to wait on hold for longer than 60 seconds. XM for this is great for this, cause it's always up to date, and never the same rotation of music. $35 bucks for a business is a) a write off and b) simply a drop in the hat for a company the size of Teksavvy.... |
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said by HiVolt:We just have a radio station hooked up.
Then SOCAN may be paying you a visit through their lawyers. The same thing happened to me when I was setting up a plant 15 years ago.
We switched to Public Domain music ASAP.
Z |
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mlernerPremium
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Nepean, ON
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said by HiVolt:I'll play the fuckin windows login sound before i pay shit to those at SOCAN.
Grab the login sound for every version of Windows and put it on loop. |
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Txbronx cheers from cheap seatsPremium
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kudos:3 | reply to myearshurt
Or grab Magix and create a simple but nice royalty free song yourself lol |
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