How to preload sound into memory to improve performance?

Question

Hello all
I have an application where it needs to play 4 different short wave files on some events. The wave files are small (less then 1 sec each) so they can be preloaded into memory. But I don't really know how to do that.. This is my current code... Performance is really important here, so the faster users can hear the sounds, the better...
import java.io.*;
import javax.sound.sampled.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class PlaySound implements ActionListener
     private Clip clip = null;
     public void play(String name)
          if (clip != null)
               clip.stop();
               clip = null;
          loadClip(name);
          clip.start();
     private void loadClip(String fnm)
          try
               AudioInputStream stream = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(new File(fnm + ".wav"));
               AudioFormat format = stream.getFormat();
               DataLine.Info info = new DataLine.Info(Clip.class, format);
               if (!AudioSystem.isLineSupported(info))
                    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Unsupported sound line", "Warning!", JOptionPane.WARNING_MESSAGE);
               else
                    clip = (Clip) AudioSystem.getLine(info);
                    clip.open(stream);
                    stream.close();
          catch (Exception e)
               JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "loadClip E: " + e.toString(), "Warning!", JOptionPane.WARNING_MESSAGE);
     public static void main(String[] args)
          play("a wav file name");
}     I would appreciate it if someone can point out how I can preload them to improve performance... Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

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OMG, me dumb you smart Florian...
Thank you for your suggestion... It's not the best OR anything close to what I thought it would be, it's certainly one way to do it and better then what I've got now...
Thanks again Florian, I really appreciate it!!
BTW, is there anything that would produce the sound faster then this?
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BuggyVB