How to read an audio file from the disk and play it?

Question

Do you know who to read an audio file from the hard disk and play it. It's for an application and not an applet. I tried with the Applet.newAudioClip(URL url) thing, but I keep getting a MalformedURLException.
And is there a way to get the path of the file you are using? Currently I'm doing this:
File file = new file("randomname");
string = file.getAbsolutePath();
file.delete();
I'm sure there's a better way. And this is not for an applet, just a normal app.

Answer 1

Below is a class that should be of use to you.
package com.sound;
import java.io.File;
import javax.sound.sampled.AudioFormat;
import javax.sound.sampled.AudioInputStream;
import javax.sound.sampled.AudioSystem;
import javax.sound.sampled.Clip;
import javax.sound.sampled.DataLine;
public class SoundPlayer implements Runnable {
     String filename;
     public SoundPlayer(String filename){
          this.filename = filename;
          Thread t = new Thread(this);
          t.start();
     }//SoundPlayer constructor
     public void run(){
          playSound();
     }//run method
     public boolean playSound(){
          try {
               File file = new File(filename);
               AudioInputStream stream = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(file);
               AudioFormat     format = stream.getFormat();
               DataLine.Info info = new DataLine.Info(Clip.class, format);
               Clip clip = (Clip)AudioSystem.getLine(info);
               clip.open(stream);
               clip.start();
               while (clip.isRunning()) {
                   Thread.sleep(100);
               clip.close();
          catch (Exception e) {
              System.err.println("Error in run in SoundPlayer");
               return false;
          return true;
     }//playSound() method
}//Class SoundPlayer