Playing music with Java? (Not server-side.)

Before you say anything, I know that I can't play music from the server without a client mod. I am no trying to. I am making a separate Java applet that will do things based on information from the server.

What I want to know is what is the best way to play music with Java? I want to loop through a song, but be able to stop in the middle of a song and switch to another if needed.

Thanks for any help!

 

The Java Media Framework might be what you are looking for.
You can find the download here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/download-142937.html

Have fun with it!

 

Thanks for that, but I can't get it to work. Here is my code:

Code:

import java.applet.Applet;
import javax.media.*;

import java.io.*;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import javax.sound.sampled.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;

@SuppressWarnings({ "serial", "unused" })
public class AreaMusic extends Applet implements ActionListener{
    Button button = new Button("Go!");
    TextField player = new TextField(20);
    TextArea output = new TextArea("Type your name in the box and click go!", 4, 60, TextArea.SCROLLBARS_NONE);
    Canvas line = new Canvas();
    public void init(){
        line.setSize(10000, 1);
        line.setBackground(getBackground());
        add(player);
        add(button);
        button.addActionListener(this);
        add(line);
        add(output);
    }

    @Override
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) {
        output.setText(player.getText());
        File song = new File("/Users/Timmy/Desktop/AreaMusic/AreaMusic/livinonaprayer.mp3");
        try {
            audioPlayer songPlayer = new audioPlayer(song);
            songPlayer.play();
        } catch (NoPlayerException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (CannotRealizeException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

import java.applet.Applet;
import javax.media.*;

import java.io.*;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import javax.sound.sampled.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;

@SuppressWarnings("unused")
public class audioPlayer {
    public Player audioPlayer = null;
    public audioPlayer(File file) throws NoPlayerException, CannotRealizeException, MalformedURLException, IOException{
        audioPlayer = Manager.createRealizedPlayer(file.toURI().toURL());
        //audioPlayer = Manager.createPlayer(file.toURI().toURL());
        //audioPlayer.prefetch();
        //audioPlayer.realize();

    }
    public void play() {
        audioPlayer.start();
    }
    public void stop() {
        audioPlayer.stop();
        audioPlayer.close();
    }

}

And when I do that, I get this error:

Code:

Failed to configure: com.sun.media.PlaybackEngine@6ab30913
  Bad header in the media: Couldn't detect stream type

Error: Unable to realize com.sun.media.PlaybackEngine@6ab30913
javax.media.CannotRealizeException
    at javax.media.Manager.blockingCall(Manager.java:2005)
    at javax.media.Manager.createRealizedPlayer(Manager.java:528)
    at audioPlayer.<init>(audioPlayer.java:16)
    at AreaMusic.actionPerformed(AreaMusic.java:33)
    at java.awt.Button.processActionEvent(Button.java:392)
    at java.awt.Button.processEvent(Button.java:360)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4735)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4565)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:679)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.access$000(EventQueue.java:85)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:638)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:636)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:87)
    at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:98)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:652)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:650)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:87)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:649)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:296)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:211)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:196)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:188)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)

 

You may get more help at http://daniweb.com/.
Or, use BukkitContrib to play music.

 

Thanks, but the whole reason I am doing this is to avoid using client mods.

And I'll have to check out that website...

 

So you want players to install a separate program on their computers, because you don't want to use a client mod? I'm not sure I see the logic in that decision.

 

Please take a look at the OP. A Java Applet is a java program that resides on a website, and does NOT need to be downloaded to a computer to run.

 

Technically the applet is downloaded and run on the computer, but it's much cleaner than forcing players to mod their clients.

 

Can't you just use:

Code:

player = Manager.createPlayer(new URL(getCodeBase(),"BillyJean.mp3"));
player.start();

??