[LAU] Simple loop playing from command line

[david]

Ken Restivo wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 09:40:14AM +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Ken Restivo wrote:
>>> I'm trying to figure out a way to play a simple loop from the
>>> command line. It doesn't need to be synchronized with anything
>>> (our drummer will be talking over it).
>> If you have mplayer with jack support you could do something like
>> this:
>> 
>> mplayer -ao jack loopfile.wav -loop 0
>> 
>> (-loop 0 means forever)
> 
> That leaves a 1-second gap between plays, which doesn't exactly work
> for a loop.
> 
> -ken

Sorry, I've never noticed that. I don't do much looping ...

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