sound play repeat and first subscribe error

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I'm using the sound play package to pause/play/repeat/stop sounds.

http://wiki.ros.org/sound_play

Its being written in python and there's a couple issues I'm having using this package.

1. I need to first play a sound and receive an error, before it'll work. This is the error

   [ERROR] [WallTime: 1401851197.944862] Sound command issued, but no node is subscribed to the topic. Perhaps you forgot to run soundplay_node.py

2. Secondly, the .startWave doesn't work for me. It plays once and stops.

Here's the code I've written to get this going.

rospy.init_node('audio')
ready = rospy.Subscriber("robotsound", SoundRequest, sound_ready)

r = rospy.Rate(1) 

#I've tried to do a sleep here, but it didn't fix the issue
sound_client = SoundClient()

#This checks for when soundplay_node.py is subscribed
while(ready.get_num_connections() < 1):
    sound_client.playWave("/absolute/path/to/wav/file")
    rospy.sleep(1)

sound_client.startWave("/absolute/path/to/wav/file")
while not rospy.is_shutdown():
    r.sleep()

I ran into the same problems on c++ as well. The only difference is a warning is produced instead of an error. This leads me to believe I'm just not using it correctly... If anyone can offer help, I'd appreciate it!