Reading wav file in Java

Question

I want to read wav files in Java and I am going to classify them with K-means.

How can I read wav files in Java and assign them into an array or something like that(

Answer 1

You could read the sound files using javax sound library and FileInputStream (found a nice example here) and treat the wave files as a vector of bits (0,1) or bytes.. using multiple sequence alignment (Wiki) create a distance matrix between every stream of bits/bytes, and from there, the clustering should be straight forward.

The Problem is, that this method is very sensitive to noise, etc, but it is worth a shot...