Sound card detection - simple solution

Question

Hello,
this goes to all who are interested. The question how to detect a sound card was brought up in the past, and I found a quite simple way to do it. To my knowledge, this was not posted before.
The following code returns true if a sound card is present and enabled. I tested it on a couple of machines, and it seems to work just fine. It even works in Applets.
import javax.sound.sampled.*;
private boolean detectSoundcard() {
Line.Info il = new Line.Info(TargetDataLine.class);
return AudioSystem.isLineSupported(il);
} // detectSoundCard
Comments are very welcome,
Stefan

Answer 1

I am trying to do the same sort of thing but with multiple sound cards. Do you by any chance know how to get a list of available sound cards on a machine and then choose which card the player will use? Your help is appreciated.