How to play audio in Java Application

Question

I\'m making a java application and I need to play audio. I\'m playing mainly small sound files of my cannon firing (its a cannon shooting game) and the projectiles exploding

Answer 1

I guess you should run your playSound method in a background thread as mentioned in the doc here

"you'll probably want to invoke this playback loop in a separate thread from the rest of the application program, so that your program doesn't appear to freeze when playing a long sound"

Maybe by doing something like

// shared executor
ExecutorService soundExecutor = ...; //Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();
...
final File soundFile = ...;
soundExecutor.submit(new Runnable(){
   public void run(){
        SoundUtils.playSoundFile(soundFile);
   }
});