The Hello Audio! of Java that plays a sound file from local or internet storage looks as follows. It works for uncompressed .wav files and should not be used for playing mp3 or compressed files.
import java.io.*;
import java.net.URL;
import javax.sound.sampled.*;
public class SoundClipTest {
// Constructor
public SoundClipTest() {
try {
// Open an audio input stream.
File soundFile = new File("/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav"); //you could also get the sound file with an URL
AudioInputStream audioIn = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(soundFile);
AudioFormat format = audioIn.getFormat();
// Get a sound clip resource.
DataLine.Info info = new DataLine.Info(Clip.class, format);
Clip clip = (Clip)AudioSystem.getLine(info);
// Open audio clip and load samples from the audio input stream.
clip.open(audioIn);
clip.start();
} catch (UnsupportedAudioFileException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (LineUnavailableException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
new SoundClipTest();
}
}