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

I have had good luck using the following code in an application (even though it uses the Applet's newAudioClip() method):

AudioClip clip;

File fileClip = new File("/usr/share/sounds/generic.wav");

URL url = null;

try
{
    URI uri = fileClip.toURI();
    url = uri.toURL();
    clip = Applet.newAudioClip(url);
}
catch (MalformedURLException e){}

clip.play();

I got this method from: Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures Through Objects, 4th Edition by Tony Gaddis, Addison Wesley, ISBN-13 978-0-13-608020-6