Sound application help

Question

here is another example of a sound application that does not work. can any one help me fix it??
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
import java.net.URL;
public class AnotherAudioAttempt{
  public static void AlertSound(){
    try{
      java.io.File file = new java.io.File("file:///home/nova812/myJava/audio/siren.au");
      AudioClip welldoneclip = Applet.newAudioClip(file.toURL());
      welldoneclip.play();
    catch (Exception e){}
  public static void main(String[] argz){
    AlertSound();
}//end classRon_W

Answer 1

I did try System.in.read() but it didn't work either. However, going the the archives here I found a version of the following code. finally some code that works. I modified it so that it would play a sound when the app starts. Althoug the code works, pushing the play sound button to fast will cause the app to not play a sound for a long time. some tweeking is needed.
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class PlaySound {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
  new PlaySoundFrame();
class PlaySoundFrame extends Frame implements ActionListener {
  Button playSound = new Button("Play Sound");
  PlaySoundFrame() {
    super();
    /* Add the window listener */
    addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
    public void windowClosing(WindowEvent evt) {
      dispose(); System.exit(0);}});
    playSound.addActionListener(this);
    add(BorderLayout.NORTH,playSound);
    /* Size the frame */
    setSize(200,200);
    /* Center the frame */
    Dimension screenDim = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize
    Rectangle frameDim = getBounds();
    setLocation((screenDim.width - frameDim.width) / 2,
    (screenDim.height - frameDim.height) / 2);
    /* Show the frame */
    setVisible(true);
    playSnd();
public void playSnd(){
   AudioClip ac = null;
      try{
        ac = Applet.newAudioClip(new URL("file:///home/nova812/myJava/audio/siren.au"));
      catch(MalformedURLException mfe){
      System.out.println("BadURL!");
      if(ac != null)
        ac.play();
      else
        System.out.println("no sound!!");
  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt){
    if (evt.getSource() == playSound){
      playSnd();
}Ron_W