Problem accessing sounds in jar file

Question

Hi,
I have made a program and packed it to a jar file.
Everything works fine in the IDE, so this is purely a matter of jar access.
The jar has 6 folders.
framework (which is one of my packages)
META-INF
sound (also my package)
sounds (my wav files for the program)
sprite (another package)
sprites (my graphics for the program).
I access the graphics in sprites, from a class in sprite and have no problem with it.
try {               
               URL url = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource(ref);               
               if (url == null) {
                    fail("Kan ikke finde ref: "+ref);
               sourceImage = ImageIO.read(url);
          } catch (IOException e) {
               fail("fejl ved load: "+ref);
          }The problem is accessing the wav file in the sounds folder from a class in the sound folder.
try{
               AudioInputStream stream = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(new File("Sounds/1999.wav"));
               AudioFormat format = stream.getFormat();
               DataLine.Info info = new DataLine.Info(Clip.class, stream.getFormat(),
                         ((int)stream.getFrameLength()*format.getFrameSize()));
               clip = (Clip) AudioSystem.getLine(info);
               clip.open(stream);
          }I have tried to use the class loader like this (instead of AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream) :
AudioInputStream stream = (AudioInputStream) this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("sounds/1999.wav");          
but it didnt help.
Does anyone have any suggestione?
Please, if all you can do, is paste a link to the java API, save your energy. I have already looked and it was no help, as im still only a student of java.
I would like an actual suggestion, so i can see it work, then i can make work my way through the API from there.
Edited by: Mondariz on May 7, 2008 8:26 AM

Answer 1

Don't try to use a File object to access resources from the jar. You have a working process for accessing the sprites, just use the same process to access the sounds. Only not quite the same method, there's one method which returns a URL and a very similar method which returns an InputStream. I would post the link to the documentation but you asked for us to not do that. Anyway you seem to know where it is.