[linux-audio-user] looping music that i play

hi all, i'd like to: * record a single chorus of "girl from ipanema" on my accoustic guitar. * play it endlessly in a loop while i practise jazz improvisation. * it would be nice for my computer to provide a metronome while i play (and record that metronome over my recording), but that's not necessary since i can use a real metronome and have it play in the background. i went to dave phillip's site, and found a staggering number of recorders and players. can someone suggest a nice easy to use set of tools to do this with? as a first stab, i tried sound-recorder, but when i play the resulting wav file with wavp, wavp exits immediately. when i try to play the resulting wav file with "play", it complains about premature end of a wav file. i assume thousands of linux using musicians are doing exactly what i want to do. what are some good tools that i should look at? looking for ease of use rather than features, at least for now. thanks! pete -- GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D