Reliably playing a short sound in Java

Question

I am tyring to write some Java code that basically just plays a short .wav file - with \'short\' I mean a fraction of a second. (The file I use is at /usr/share/sounds/gener

Answer 1

The most straightforward approach here is probably to just get the exact clipLength in milliseconds (rounding up) and use that to sleep the thread playing the sound for the duration. Make sure you use synchronized to avoid IllegalMonitorStateExceptions.

synchronized(clip){
    clip.start();
    try{
        double clipLength = audioParams.getFrameLength() / 
                               audioParams.getFormat().getFrameRate();
        clip.wait(java.lang.Math.round(clipLength +.5)*1000);
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        System.out.println( e.getMessage() );
    }

    c.stop();
 }