Game Music Slowdown

Hi, I'm making a 2D platformer and I added a thread (with the lowest priority) that will play midi files. The game now runs noticeably slower (it used to use roughly 2 -10% of my 1.73 gHz CPU, now with midi music it now uses about 40-75%)

I've also tried this with .ogg and .mp3 files and they all have the same problem

Here is the thread class I'm using:

publicclass MusicThreadextends Thread

{

public MusicThread(String filename)

{

super(filename);

}

publicvoid run()

{

try

{

Sequencer seqr = MidiSystem.getSequencer();

Sequence seq = MidiSystem.getSequence(new File(this.getName()));

seqr.open();

seqr.setSequence(seq);

seqr.start();

}

catch(Exception ex)

{

ex.printStackTrace();

}

}

}

does anyone know how I can improve the performance?

[1532 byte] By [Rabid_Sponge] at [2007-9-30 11:54:01]