Question

This is the first time I’ve implemented sounds but I can’t figure out where to actually place the sounds to play them. I am using Eclipse as my IDE and I’ve put my sounds in a folder called sounds.

The following code is what I’ve used to create one of the audioclip objects:

private final String background = "." + slash + "sounds" + slash + "background.wav";

main(....){
    try {
        backgroundClip = Applet.newAudioClip(new File(background).toURI().toURL());
    } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

I don’t hear anything. When I remove the try/catch I get an error saying that it is unable to find the file. I placed my sound folder in both /src and /bin but neither can find it. where do I put it?

Answer 1

The base for your project is the level above the src folder. So using . will put you at your project folder.

Basically,

. = project_root

./src = default_package
./src/packagename = inside the package named "packagename"

./sounds/background.wav = a .wav file in the sounds folder, in the project_root

Using your current path, you need to put your .wav file in the sounds folder in the project_root.

The path will end up being project_root/sounds/background.wav.