Sound Player for .WAV and .AU Files

This snippet shows how to play .wav or .au file. The following steps need to be done.

- Get the AudioInputStream for the audio file

- Check the PCM_SIGNED encoding, else convert

- Create the AudioClip using the DataLine object

- Finally play the clip and close stream and clip when done.

package com.livrona.snippets.audio;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import javax.sound.sampled.AudioFormat;
import javax.sound.sampled.AudioInputStream;
import javax.sound.sampled.AudioSystem;
import javax.sound.sampled.Clip;
import javax.sound.sampled.DataLine;

/**
 * This snippet show how to play any music file in in either .wav or .au
 * format.
 * 
 * @author mvohra
 * 
 */
publicclass MusicPlayer {

private AudioInputStream stream =null;
private Clip clip =null;

/**
	 * Stop Playing the cleanup resources
	 */
publicvoid stopPlaying() {
		clip.stop();
		clip.close();
try {
			stream.close();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			System.out.println("Failed to close the stream "+ e.getMessage());

			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

/**
	 * Start Playing the music file
	 * 
	 * @param fileName
	 */
publicvoid startPlaying(String fileName) {
try {
// From file
			stream = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(new File(fileName));
// At present, ALAW and ULAW encodings must be converted
// to PCM_SIGNED before it can be played
			AudioFormat format = stream.getFormat();
if (format.getEncoding() != AudioFormat.Encoding.PCM_SIGNED) {
				format =new AudioFormat(AudioFormat.Encoding.PCM_SIGNED,
						format.getSampleRate(),
						format.getSampleSizeInBits() * 2, format.getChannels(),
						format.getFrameSize() * 2, format.getFrameRate(), true); // big
				// endian
				stream = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(format, stream);
			}
// Create the clip
			DataLine.Info info =new DataLine.Info(Clip.class, stream
					.getFormat(), ((int) stream.getFrameLength() * format
					.getFrameSize()));
			clip = (Clip) AudioSystem.getLine(info);
// This method does not return until the audio file is completely
// loaded
			clip.open(stream);
// Start playing
			clip.start();

		} catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

/**
	 * App Launcher , main(..) method
	 * 
	 * @param args
	 */
publicstaticvoid main(String[] args) throws Exception {

if (args.length !=1) {
			System.out
					.println("Usage: java com.livrona.snippets.audio.MidiPlayer <Path of your sound clip, in either .wav or au>");
			System.exit(0);
		}

		String musicFile = args[0];
		System.out.println("File : "+ musicFile);

// create the player
		MusicPlayer player =new MusicPlayer();

// start
		player.startPlaying(musicFile);
		System.out.println("Music file is playing..");

// play for say 10 secs and then stop
		Thread.sleep(10000);
		System.out.println("About to stop the music ..");

// stop
		player.stopPlaying();
	}
}