Basic audio output

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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();
   }
}

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