[SoX-users] backgrounding

[<pj...@pj...>]

Hi.  Sorry, it's me again...

Under bash,
  ~> play -q backing.wav
works fine :-)  but:
  ~> play -q backing.wav &
doesn't run in the background, it enters Stopped state :-(
Strange... I can restart it with "fg %1".  I have to resort to:
  ~> (play -q backing.wav &)
to run it in the background.  Is there a reason for this ?

( It probably doesn't take long to fork a shell, but in e.g.:
  ~> (play --buffer 1024 -q backing.wav &) \
  >  & sox -t alsa mt:4,0 solo.wav
  it must add something to the latency. )

Peter

P.S. Thanks for your help; I'm under way now, and that little
Zoom box, it does sound good ...

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