How to make audio.play() wait

Question

Hi,
I use audio.play() in a program that will randomly play the (wav) files in a directory.
It all works works - except audio.play() doesn't wait for one song to finish before it goes on to the next.
Should a spawn a thread with audio.play() in it?
If so, is there a simple way?
Or, is there another way to tell/force audio.play() to wait till the song is finished?
Here is the portion of the code:
       //--- Shuffle by exchanging each element randomly
       for (int i=0; i<nFiles.length; i++) {
           int randomPosition = rgen.nextInt(nFiles.length);
           int temp = nFiles;
nFiles[i] = nFiles[randomPosition];
nFiles[randomPosition] = temp;
//System.out.println(nFiles[randomPosition]);
//System.out.println(path_chld[temp]);
try {
Uaudiofile = new URL("file:" + path_chld[temp]);
audio = Applet.newAudioClip(Uaudiofile);
//audio.wait();
audio.play();
Thread.sleep(2000);
catch (Exception e) {
//WriteError WEbadcommand=new WriteError("playrand failed trying to get the song file URL");
System.out.println("playrand Error creating URL, see log for more detail: " + e);
Thanks, Matt                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Answer 1

matt_thumper wrote:
..All you have to do is submit the audio file as an independent process:If that 'SubmitProcess' class uses Runtime.exec() to gain a process, then you should add..
"And digitally sign the code, and convince the end user to agree to run the code."
Hope this helps.No, it does not really help the bigger scheme of things to have such poor strategies listed as a solution.
You have already been given a pointer to the API that would enable this ability in a sand-boxed applet. Even better than waiting a defined time for the sound to end, the Java Sound API offers listeners that will be informed when a sound has finished playing.