sound not playing in jar

Question

I have packed all the class files and resources as a jar but on execution the sound files wont play. My package structure is:

+project
|_classes
|_ _*.class
         


        

Answer 1

This is my function for playing a looping sound file in jars, it works fine for me.

It appears that getResourceAsStream() doesn't work with jars. however, getResource() does.

public synchronized void alarm() {
    try {
        crit = AudioSystem.getClip();
        AudioInputStream inputStream1 = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(this.getClass().getResource("critical.wav"));
        crit.open(inputStream1);
        crit.loop(Clip.LOOP_CONTINUOUSLY);

    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.err.println(e.getMessage());
        }
}