Play an audio file from an application

Play an audio file from an application

With Applet, the getAudioClip method() from the Applet package is used to play sound file. Starting with JDK1.2, getAudioClip() is now a static method. So it may be possible to use it without an Applet (i.e. in a regular Java application) with

java.applet.Applet.getAudioClip(URLofMySound);

Note: Since JDK1.2, Java can play WAV directly, see http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/sound/playing.html.

Another way is to use the undocumented sun.audio package.

import sun.audio.*;
...
...
 AudioPlayer p=AudioPlayer.player;
 try{
   AudioStream as =
      new AudioStream(new FileInputStream("aSound.au"));
   p.start(as);
   }
 catch(IOException err){
   err.printStackTrace();
   }

To play a sound from a JAR file (the .AU file in the JAR must be accessible via the CLASSPATH of course!) :

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

import sun.audio.*;

public class AppAudio {
  public static void main(String args[]) throws Throwable {
    InputStream in = AppAudio.class.getResourceAsStream(args[0]);
    AudioStream as = new AudioStream(in);
    AudioPlayer.player.start(as);
    Thread.sleep(5000);
  }
}

Since JDK1.3, you have also the javax.sound package, see this HowTo.