Appropriate use of llLoopSound()

Quick survey of sorts.

I have a lot of water around my building, so last night I stuck a quiet water gurgling sound on an object and let it loop forever. This is an attempt by me to toy with ambiance and establishing a mood to the area.

Ironchef pointed out that I shouldn't do this cause it will cause lag, which I have to agree that it might cause lag. So the question is, is this kind of forever looping sound bad or frowned on? How do other people establish ambiance at their builds? What if the haunted house wanted to endlessly loop a clip of moaning and chains rattling?

Talk to Chris Omega. I believe he has something that he can easily modify to only loop the sound when there are people in the vicinity, and quit playing it once the area is vacant again.

Doesn't make it completely non-laggy, but frees up the resources when their usage serves no purpose.

Looping a sound isn't much more laggy than playing it once.

The sound is only downloaded once, and hopefully your water gurgling sound isn't very long.

I'm pretty sure that when the client gets the sound, it is told to loop it, as long as it is in range (as opposed to "play sound" messages ever few seconds), so there are no updates there.

And playing a short looped sound isn't hard for a modern sound card, so there's no client-side lag there.