[LAU] Simple loop playing from command line

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). I found this archive: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.ecasound.general/3843 But there seems to be no "audioloop" in ecasound (I have 2.4.6.1-2 ). The man page I have on my system mentions "-tl", so I tried that, and it zombified jack (not good). Here is what I tried; $ ecasound -f:f32_le,2,48000 -t:3600 -a:1 -i:audioloop,johnloop48.wav -a:all -o jack_auto does nothing, just tells me three tims that it is using realtime-scheduling: - [ Engine init - Driver start ] (eca-engine) Using realtime-scheduling (SCHED_FIFO:50). (eca-engine) Using realtime-scheduling (SCHED_FIFO:50). (eca-engine) Using realtime-scheduling (SCHED_FIFO:50). Hmm. Goole says try "notransport". So I do. $ ecasound -f:f32_le,2,48000 -G:jack,ecasound,notransport -tl -a:1 -i:audioloop,johnloop48.wav -a:all -o jack_auto does nothing, just goes: - [ Engine init - Driver start ] (eca-engine) Using realtime-scheduling (SCHED_FIFO:50). and then hangs, but at least that tells me only once that it's realtime-scheduling OK, how about doing what the docs say? $ ecasound -f:f32_le,2,48000 -G:jack,ecasound,notransport -tl -a:1 -i:johnloop48.wav -a:all -o jack_auto plays the loop once, then zombifies (eca-engine) Using realtime-scheduling (SCHED_FIFO:50). zombified - calling shutdown handler (eca-engine) WARNING: Engine has raised an error! Possible causes: connection ... lost to system services, unable to adapt to changes in operating environment, etc. - [ Controller/Batch processing finished (-3) ] -------------------------------- ecasound: Warning! Errors detected during processing. (eca-control-objects) Disconnecting chainsetup: "command-line-setup". At least I got sound out of it though. Are there any other command-line tools I could use to loop a wav file, possibly simpler and less weird than ecasound? I guess I could write one, just read the bytes out of a wav file in a loop, and dump it into the jack process callback, wouldn't be too hard. But if something already exists, then I'd rather use that. Thanks! -ken