sounds

[Nick George]

I'm using a sound manager class that looks as follows:

   
public class SoundManager {
  private static AudioClip [] sounds;

  public static int ARROW      = 0;
  public static int CANNONBALL = 1;
  public static int DOOM       = 2;


  public static void init(){
    sounds = new AudioClip[ 10 ];

    sounds[ARROW] = Applet.newAudioClip( MediaUtil.getResource( "media/arrow.wav" ) );
    sounds[CANNONBALL] = Applet.newAudioClip( MediaUtil.getResource( "media/cannon.wav" ) );
    sounds[DOOM] = Applet.newAudioClip( MediaUtil.getResource( "media/doom.wav" ) );

  }

 
  public static void play( int i ) {
    sounds[i].play();
    System.out.println( "hap" );
  }
}
 

The strange thing is that for arrow.wav and cannonball.wav (two short sounds, <3 seconds), it works fine. However, for doom.wav ( a longer sound, about 4 minutes ), it seems to keep starting the sound over and over again, so you get a mash of 100 versions of it playing at once. Whyzat?

Thanks,
Nick

I picked the applets forum because this is a method of applets, if there's a better forum, feel free to move.

[Keith Lynn]

You might try using Thread.sleep to pause the application for a number of seconds after you start playing a sound.

[Nick George]

No dice.

I picked a song that has an opening noise, and then relative silence, so I know that the song keeps starting, and isn't just really fuzzy.

Thanks

[Keith Lynn]

Have you tried playing it through an applet to test the file?

[Nick George]

I don't know beans about applets, never made one in me life.

Honestly, I don't even really think it's an Applets question, I wonder if people will be annoyed if Icrosspost
[ April 16, 2006: Message edited by: Nick George ]

[Keith Lynn]

This would be the code for the appplet.

import javax.swing.*;
import java.applet.*;
 
public class SoundTest extends JApplet {
 
   public void init() {
      AudioClip clip = getAudioClip(getCodeBase(),getParameter("sound"));
 
      clip.play();
   }
 
}

Compile the class and then load this HTML file in a browser or appletviewer.

<applet code=SoundTest width=20 height=20>
<param name="sound" value="notify.wav">
</applet>

Where you place the name of the sound you want to play as the value in the param tag.

Note that in this example, the sound file should be in the same directory as the .class file and HTML file.

[Nick George]

Thanks, but I'm not planning on going down the applet path... is that just for testing purposes?

[Bear Bibeault]

Moved to Java in General (intermediate) at author's request.

[Keith Lynn]

The applet will let you test the files to see if they do the same thing as they do when you play them in an application.