Music On Hold CD

Until recently, the music on hold CD was the standard way most on hold companies delivered their on hold productions.  In the last couple years, the music on hold CD has been rapidly replaced by the music on hold mp3 file format.  Even with a music on hold player like the OHP 7000 from On Hold Plus, there still needed to be a motor to initially spin the music on hold cd and record it into memory.  Those moving parts are still prone to failure, even though the motor is not spinning continuously as it would in a consumer cd player.

Players such as the ProDigital PD USB60 and the OHP 8000 made by On Hold Plus, do away with support for music on hold CDs and instead support music on hold mp3 transfers via their standard usb flash drives.  In fact, most of the manufacturers of music on hold devices now have music on hold players that use mp3 exclusively for transferring and storing your on hold music.

Music on hold CDs are a physical delivery format  (similar to how tapes were delivered prior to CDs).  These physical formats typically require additional shipping cost and time, and they only work on players that use at least some moving parts.  Because the new music on hold mp3 players do not require a physical product, they are easier to load and update, and they do not rely on moving parts, we highly recommend mp3 based  music on hold players over the soon to be outdated music on hold cd.

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