mplayer is a movie player for Linux and other platforms. It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, ASF/WMA/WMV, RM, QT/MOV/MP4, Ogg/OGM, MKV, VIVO, FLI, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM and RoQ files, supported by many native and binary codecs. You can watch Video CD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies, too.
If you just need to play mp3 in loop use -loop option. It loops movie playback
mplayer -loop 0 /presentation/foss/bit/08/background.soft.welcome.mp3
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wrong feed? seems more like FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Or use a pattern to loop through a series of files
mplayer -loop 0 *.ogg