How to play one clip multiple times at the same time?

Question

I am writing a little game where a certain sound has to be played quite frequently. I load it as a Clip and play it with
myClip.setFramePosition(0);
myClip.loop(0);If the sound has to be played again but is still being played by another event, the setFramePosition() method resets the sound and the first playing instance is cut off.
A workaround would be that each object that needs to play this sound would get its own copy, but that is not feasible due to heavy memory consumption.
So here it goes: How can I play a single sound multiple times at the same time? Is that possible?
Edited by: andrasz on Feb 27, 2009 12:37 AM

Answer 1

If the sound has to be played again but is still being played by another event, the setFramePosition() method resets the sound and the first playing instance is cut off.
A workaround would be that each object that needs to play this sound would get its own copy, but that is not feasible due to heavy memory consumption.
So here it goes: How can I play a single sound multiple times at the same time? Is that possible?Ummmm, if you're using a clip, you'll have to maintain one copy per object that needs to play the sound concurrently. You could keep one master copy, and then create copies of the clip as necessary to play them, and then just dump the copies to decrease memory consumption.
A second idea would be to write your own Clip class. Esentially, all you would need to do is dump some sound data onto a TargetDataline to play it. It'll handle the buffering and playing at the correct speed itself. If that's all you did, you should be able to dump multiple times from the same instance and play it multiple times.
Obviously, that's just a theory. In practice, it may not work that way...