Playing a mp3, how do i pause / stop?

Question

I will start out, saying that I've never written my own thread before, and I'm extremely novice in that area. But I found some code for playing an mp3, that's going to be invoked from a JLayeredPane(that i used to make a little animation sequence.) I can't figure out how to stop the player without calling stop on the thread which is apparently depreciated. Might be off this forums area, but from my swing component, should I be calling this thread with invoke? or invoke and wait. this thread doesn't need access to the swing component, but from the swing thread, I want to be able to stop the player. So here's the code I found
import javax.media.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.URL;
class mp3 extends Thread
  private URL url;
  private MediaLocator mediaLocator;
  private Player playMP3;
  public mp3(String mp3)
    try
     this.url = new URL(mp3);
      catch(java.net.MalformedURLException e)
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
  public Player getPlayer()
    return this.playMP3;
  public void run()
    try
      mediaLocator = new MediaLocator(url);    
      playMP3 = Manager.createPlayer(mediaLocator);
    catch(java.io.IOException e)
      System.out.println(e.getMessage());
    catch(javax.media.NoPlayerException e)
      System.out.println(e.getMessage());
    playMP3.addControllerListener(
      new ControllerListener()
        public void controllerUpdate(ControllerEvent e)
          if (e instanceof EndOfMediaEvent)
            playMP3.stop();
            playMP3.close();
    playMP3.realize();
    playMP3.start();
public class playmp3
  public static void main(String[] args)
    mp3 t = new mp3("file:///C://Beat1.mp3");
    t.start();
}

Answer 1

You just need to write a stop and a pause function as part of the MP3 class, and make sure it's a syncronized function (if you don't know what this means, look up the Java keyword syncronized).