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Incorporating Sound

I've been attempting this for a bit now and i'm still a little dissoriented when it comes to implementing sound into a java application (not an applet).

I've found a couple of tutorials, but I may be overlooking/not understanding something.

For example, this looks fairly simple. (from: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javatips/jw-javatip24.html)

//** add this into your application code as appropriate
// Open an input stream to the audio file.
InputStream in = new FileInputStream(Filename);
// Create an AudioStream object from the input stream.
AudioStream as = new AudioStream(in);
// Use the static class member "player" from class AudioPlayer to play
// clip.
AudioPlayer.player.start(as);
// Similarly, to stop the audio.
AudioPlayer.player.stop(as);

So the way im thinking about this is that i'll create a method inside the splash screen .java file.

public void playTheme()
{
InputStream in = new FileInputStream("Binds.WAV");
AudioStream as = new AudioStream(in);
AudioPlayer.player.start(as);
}

And to call it with my window() method id just put in playTheme()?

Does this only work for *.wav? I found a real nice royalty free music webpage that houses a lot of nice mp3 sounds (http://www.koumis.com/music.htm)

Thanks in advance

Regard,
Dave

Mick Barry

For mp3's you'll need to get an mp3 decoder

Mick Barry

http://www.javazoom.net/mp3spi/mp3spi.html

Mick Barry

By default Java supports AIFF, AU, WAV and MIDI

ildave1

ASKER

Great... I got this to work.. I actually found an easier way to solve this problem. I found a MP3 >> WAV converter.

Would it be hard to 'LOOP' this so it continues playing, over and over again?

public void playTheme()
{
      AudioPlayer player = AudioPlayer.player;
      try{
            AudioStream audiostr = new AudioStream(new FileInputStream("Beat2.WAV"));
            player.start(audiostr);
      }
      catch(IOException err){
            System.out.println(err.toString());
      }
}

Thanks

David

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