Playing wav sound file in Linux in background?

[J. Landman Gay]

Peter Alcibiades wrote:
> He has a solution, surely, it is to do it from the shell.  His problem is
> that when he goes out to the shell, it does not then play in the background.
> 
> If he calls the shell command from a separate stack, will it not then leave
> the original stack to just go on?  So the effect will be to play in the
> background, and leave the user free to interact with the main stack?

If you try this, I'd like to know how it works. I think all scripts will 
pause while another is running, regardless of the stack the script is 
in. But let us know.

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