Sound
[262 byte] By [GilGalvantia] at [2007-11-27 5:31:21] 
Hey,I've looked up info on sound, but everything I've found either doesn't make sense or requires many lines of code in specific places to play a single sound. Can anyone point me to a good tutorial or tell me a simpler way to just play a sound?
No, probably not.
There's java.applet.AudioClip, but that's so basic as to be hardly worth it.
Otherwise this is about as simple as I could make it...
Clip clip = null;
AudioInputStream in = null;
try
{
InputStream tmp = .... // get the plain input stream from wherever
if(tmp != null)
{
in = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(tmp);
DataLine.Info clipInfo = new DataLine.Info(Clip.class, in.getFormat());
if(AudioSystem.isLineSupported(clipInfo))
{
clip = (Clip)AudioSystem.getLine(clipInfo);
clip.open(in);
}
}
}
catch(UnsupportedAudioFileException e)
{
System.err.println("Audio file format not supported.");
}
catch(LineUnavailableException e)
{
System.err.println("Audio clip not available.");
}
catch(IOException e)
{
System.err.println("Error creating audio clip.");
}
finally
{
closeStream(in);
}
clip.setFramePosition(0); // rewind, in case it's been played before
clip.loop(0); // play and loop X times
bsampieria at 2007-7-12 14:56:28 >
Alright, thanks, that's a lot better than what I've seen ;).
GilGalvantia at 2007-7-12 14:56:28 >
do I need to import anything for that to work? I'm getting an error that class clip doesn't exist :S
GilGalvantia at 2007-7-12 14:56:28 >
Of course you need to import stuff. javax.sound.sampled.* at least
bsampieria at 2007-7-12 14:56:28 >
k, it fixed not finding clip, but it can't find input stream now. Also, where should I put this? In the main method? Sorry, I'm new to all of this.
GilGalvantia at 2007-7-12 14:56:28 >
Sound is one of the few areas where Java's polite simplicity
doesnt really shine, lol. It requires more code than beginners
are used to for what can be perceived as a trivial task.
There are lots of good sound tutorials online. Its just going to take
a lot of work on your part. Good luck.
TuringPesta at 2007-7-12 14:56:28 >
import java.io.*;
bsampieria at 2007-7-12 14:56:28 >
> Sound is one of the few areas where Java's polite
> simplicity
> doesnt really shine, lol. It requires more code than
> beginners
> are used to for what can be perceived as a trivial
> task.
>
> There are lots of good sound tutorials online. Its
> just going to take
> a lot of work on your part. Good luck.
Yeah, I noticed, heh. I'm used to BASIC where it takes two lines to play a sound. "load sound "filename.wav", soundNum" and "play sound soundNum, startPosition", so it's a big transition having to type 100 lines of code to play a simple sound. Very annoying really, heh :P. I've looked at tutorials, but none have worked, and I have no idea what they are doing. They aren't even using methods, which is the only way I know to do things, and their coding habits are terrible and near impossible to read. I'm incredibly confused, why can't they just make it simpler :S.
GilGalvantia at 2007-7-12 14:56:28 >
GAH, I'm still getting that it can't find the classes. Would anyone be kind enough to make me a complete program that runs by itself that just plays a simple .wav file? I have no idea what I'm doing with this.
GilGalvantia at 2007-7-12 14:56:28 >
> GAH, I'm still getting that it can't find the
> classes. Would anyone be kind enough to make me a
> complete program that runs by itself that just plays
> a simple .wav file? I have no idea what I'm doing
> with this.
I want you to feel welcome here but I almost feel a bit compelled to
voice my frustration with that post, lol.
I googled "java play wav" and the FIRST result was a usable example:
http://www.anyexample.com/programming/java/java_play_wav_sound_file.xml
You really just need to keep at it. Its the only way to learn.
TuringPesta at 2007-7-12 14:56:28 >
> GAH, I'm still getting that it can't find the
> classes. Would anyone be kind enough to make me a
> complete program that runs by itself that just plays
> a simple .wav file? I have no idea what I'm doing
> with this.
I want you to feel welcome here but I almost feel a bit compelled to
voice my frustration with that post, lol.
I googled "java play wav" and the FIRST result was a usable example:
http://www.anyexample.com/programming/java/java_play_wav_sound_file.xml
You really just need to keep at it. Its the only way to learn.
TuringPesta at 2007-7-12 14:56:28 >
Sorry about that, I was looking at all the java tutorials from this site. Thanks for the help though :).
GilGalvantia at 2007-7-12 14:56:28 >
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