This may be a typo. strict would have caught it.

sleep $playtime;

Here's a very quick rewrite. It's untested, but it's a little nicer, in my opinion. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
close STDOUT;

open(LIST, 'playlist.txt') or die "Can't open playlist: $!";
my @playlist = <LIST>;
close LIST;

while (@playlist) {
    my $pos = rand @playlist;
    my $filename = playlist[$pos];

    system("/usr/local/bin/ogg123", '-d', 'oss', 'q', $filename, '&');

    sleep 2;
    foreach (`ps -U root --format pid fname`) {
        next unless /ogg123/;
        open(PID, '>player.pid') or warn "Can't log pid ($_): $!";
        print PID $_;
        close PID;
        last;
    }

    open(PLAYING, ">nowplaying.txt") or warn "Can't log filename $file
+name: $!";
    print PLAYING $filename;
    close PLAYING;

    splice @playlist, $pos, 1;

    my $playtime;
    foreach (`ogginfo $filename`)
        next unless /length=(.+)$/;
        $playtime = $1;
        last;
    }

    sleep $playtime;
}

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In reply to Re: Re: (Ovid) Re: CGI and Sleep? by chromatic
in thread CGI and Sleep? by jellisii

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