Play sound in a java application

Hi,
I am creating a sound player program in a java application. Is that possible ? If yes, please tell me how to do that.
Please reply soon!
Thank you!

i have had to use javax.sound and also Java Media Framework to do an aplication, and think jmf is easier than javax.sound cause things in jmf are more abstracted than in js. try with jmf

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Playing sounds in a Java Application?

Hi,
I am making a simple chat program, and want to include sounds for sending a receiving messages, but I can't seem to get it to work.
First, does anybody have an easy solution to just Load 2 clips of aduio, and play them on-command? So when I send a message, I can just play the audio file once with a simple line of code?
If so, that is way easier than the way I am currently trying :P
Regards,
-Josh

MIDI is very easy to play in your applications. WAV might be a bit trickier.
For some slightly advanced midi playback, check out this link:
http://javaalmanac.com/egs/javax.sound.midi/pkg.html
For basic MIDI playback,
See "Playing Sounds from an Application" in this article:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/sound/playing.html
Or see:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javatips/jw-javatip24.html
As for WAV, maybe this? I've never used WAV.
http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0191.html

JMStudio locks up playing sound file - using java 1.5.0_02 - HELP!

I'm using the jmf 2.1.1e cross platform version on Windows XP SP2. I have java 1.5.0_02 installed.
When I open the sound file using JMStudio it locks up. It plays videos that don't have sound fine, so it's not the video. It's the sound that is killing it.
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Hi,
yeah it's possible to play sound on Windows but you have to use the Windows Performance Pack instead of the crossplatform-version of JMF.
This has to do with the JavaSound Architecture of Java 5.0. They made changes and now the JavaSound Renderer didn't work under Windows but the DircetSound Renderer works fine.
So be sure that your application uses the DirectSound Renderer!
This is one of the main problems of JMF but now Sun gets interested in JMF and they would build a new version of JMF. If this is true they have to fix this problem!
Best regards, thomas

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Hello, any help at all greatly appreciated.
I need a dead-certain way of playing sounds with my java application.
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I need a way of accessing the windows sound API from inside my java app.
Anyone have any ideas??????

Hello, any help at all greatly appreciated.
I need a dead-certain way of playing sounds with my java application.
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I need a way of accessing the windows sound API from inside my java app.
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Help with playing sound in applications

im new to java and i was practicing playing sound in a swing application but the problem is that when i press the play button no sound is played...here is my code
import javax.swing.*;
import java.applet.AudioClip;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.io.File;
public class JukeBox extends JFrame {
    private JLabel label;
    private JPanel panel, buttonPanel;
    private JComboBox playList;
    private JButton play, stop;
    private URL url1, url2, url3, url4, url5, url6;
    private AudioClip[] musicList;
    private AudioClip current ;
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        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setSize(500, 120);
        setLocation(50, 50);
        setTitle("JAVA JukeBox");
        url1 = url2 = url3 = url4 = url5 = url6 = null;
        current = null;
        try {
            url1 = new URL("file", "localhost", "C:\\Documents and Settings\\KADA\\IdeaProjects\\Sound\\bottle-open.wav");
            url2 = new URL("file", "localhost", "C:\\Documents and Settings\\KADA\\IdeaProjects\\Sound\\BP2.mp3");
            url3 = new URL("file", "localhost", "C:\\Documents and Settings\\KADA\\IdeaProjects\\Sound\\fhm.aiff");
            url4 = new URL("file", "localhost", "C:\\Documents and Settings\\KADA\\IdeaProjects\\Sound\\jungle.rmf");
            url5 = new URL("file", "localhost", "C:\\Documents and Settings\\KADA\\IdeaProjects\\Sound\\spacemusic.au");
            url6 = new URL("file", "localhost", "C:\\Documents and Settings\\KADA\\IdeaProjects\\Sound\\trippygaia.mid");
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace(); //To change body of catch statement use File | Settings | File Templates.
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        musicList[0] = null;
        musicList[1] = JApplet.newAudioClip(url1);
        musicList[2] = JApplet.newAudioClip(url2);
        musicList[3] = JApplet.newAudioClip(url3);
        musicList[4] = JApplet.newAudioClip(url4);
        musicList[5] = JApplet.newAudioClip(url5);
        musicList[6] = JApplet.newAudioClip(url6);
        label = new JLabel("JAVA JukeBox", JLabel.CENTER);
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                , "bottle open"
                , "bitch please II"
                , "flutte, harmonica, mambo"
                , "jungle"
                , "spacemusic"
                , "trippygaia"};
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        playList.addActionListener(new ListListener());
        play = new JButton("Play");
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        play.addActionListener(new ButtonListener());
        stop = new JButton("Stop");
        stop.addActionListener(new ButtonListener());
        buttonPanel = new JPanel();
        buttonPanel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(buttonPanel, BoxLayout.X_AXIS));
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        buttonPanel.add(stop);
        panel = new JPanel();
        panel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(panel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
        panel.add(label);
        panel.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(0, 5)));
        panel.add(playList);
        panel.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(0, 5)));
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        getContentPane().add(panel);
    private class ButtonListener implements ActionListener {
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            if(current != null){
                current.stop();
            if(e.getActionCommand().equalsIgnoreCase("play")){
                if(current != null){
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    private class ListListener implements ActionListener {
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            if (current != null) {
                current.stop();
            current = musicList[playList.getSelectedIndex()];
    public static void main(String[] args) {
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        jb.setVisible(true);
        jb.setResizable(false);
}can u please tell me whats wrong with my code coz i cant hear no sound when i press the play button and can u please tell me why i cant simply put the file name in the URL instead of the complete path although the files are in the same directory of the source code and can i play mp3 using this little program ???
plz help...im a newbie so plz explain as much as u can...

After
musicList = new AudioClip[7];
        musicList[0] = null;
        musicList[1] = JApplet.newAudioClip(url1);
        musicList[2] = JApplet.newAudioClip(url2);
        musicList[3] = JApplet.newAudioClip(url3);
        musicList[4] = JApplet.newAudioClip(url4);
        musicList[5] = JApplet.newAudioClip(url5);
        musicList[6] = JApplet.newAudioClip(url6);initialise the variable current with
current = musicList[1];or similar because the AudioClip current always == null in your code so your listener blocks don`t execute.
regards

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Ive searched a bunch on google to find a way to play an audio file in java, ive found how to do this in an applet but this is not what i want, I need to get it to work in a normal java application, any help would be appreciated.

The methods that load an audio clip for you in the Applet class are static methods; iow you don't need an Applet at all, just use the (utility) methods in that class. Granted, these methods deserve a better, more neutral place.
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I installed arch on my desktop a couple weeks ago (finally 100% windows free ), but I've been having the hardest time getting audio working flawlessly.
At first I was having problems using the correct sound card as default, but It seems I have that working now. I can get sound to play, but only 1 application can access the sound card at the same time. If I have spotify playing and I try to play a youtube video in browser, the video will play for a few seconds with no sound and then completely crash. If I pause spotify and refresh the youtube page, the video will play. And also, while a youtube video or anything else is playing, any other application will refuse to play sound.
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If I run speaker-test while something is playing I get this output:
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card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
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Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
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Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
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Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
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pcm.!default {
type hw
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ctl.!default {
type hw
card PCH
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Last edited by tylerpnn (2014-03-29 04:54:00)

As always happens when I have issues, I try to solve it myself for hours on end, finally swallow my pride and post on the forums, and then find the solution on my own an hour later.
Found the solution here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 003#p70003
I took the asound.conf that iphitus posted and changed the ctl.dmixer to use my sound card, which is PCH as determined by asound -l.
here is my asound.conf:
#/etc/asound.conf start:
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
pcm.dsp0 {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm "hw:0,0"
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 8192
rate 44100
bindings {
0 0
1 1
ctl.dmixer {
type hw
card PCH
Last edited by tylerpnn (2014-03-29 06:01:42)

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