How can I play sound in Java?

Question

I want to be able to play sound files in my program. Where should I look?

Answer 1

A simple example:

import  sun.audio.*;    //import the sun.audio package
import  java.io.*;

//** add this into your application code as appropriate
// Open an input stream  to the audio file.
InputStream in = new FileInputStream(Filename);

// Create an AudioStream object from the input stream.
AudioStream as = new AudioStream(in);         

// Use the static class member "player" from class AudioPlayer to play
// clip.
AudioPlayer.player.start(as);            

// Similarly, to stop the audio.
AudioPlayer.player.stop(as);

Answer 2

I personally made this code that works fine. I think it only works with .wav format.

  public static synchronized void playSound(final String url) {
    new Thread(new Runnable() {
      public void run() {
        try {
          Clip clip = AudioSystem.getClip();
          AudioInputStream inputStream = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(Main.class.getResourceAsStream("/path/to/sounds/" + url));
          clip.open(inputStream);
          clip.start(); 
        } catch (Exception e) {
          System.err.println(e.getMessage());
        }
      }
    }).start();
  }

Answer 3

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/sound/ is worth being the starting point

Answer 4

There is an alternative to importing the sound files which works in both applets and applications: convert the audio files into .java files and simply use them in your code.

I have developed a tool which makes this process a lot easier. It simplifies the Java Sound API quite a bit.

http://stephengware.com/projects/soundtoclass/

Hope this helps. -- Stephen