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 suspect now that the reason my test program failed was a timing issue. Either I attempted playing the short sound before the samples were fully loaded, or the program terminated too quickly. The reason for this suspicion is that if I change the above code slightly like so:

File soundFile = new File("/usr/share/sounds/generic.wav");
Clip clip = AudioSystem.getClip();
AudioInputStream inputStream = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(soundFile);
clip.open(inputStream);

while (System.in.read() == '\n') {
    clip.stop();
    clip.setFramePosition(0);
    clip.start();
}

then the short sound gets played correctly every time I hit enter.