On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 10:27 -0400, Phil Bridges wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote: > > >From the shell: > > echo -e "key p\nexit\n" | netcat your_frontend_hostname 6546 > But if playback hasn't started, won't this start it? Yes, make that 'play speed pause' not 'key p'. Bill Meek