No, thanks for the hint. I just did and the behavior is a bit better in the sense that the sample start is not cut off on subsequent play invocations (behaves more or less line instantiating a new mediaplayer for each invocation, which is good) but when I loop using setCycleCount the sample start is also not clean (seams to be varying, though).
For my uses case I will probably need both MediaPlayer and Audioclip, because I have typical cases for AudioClip (e.g. short notification sounds) and long looping background samples. Wow, I just discovered, that the behavior with the sample start sounding different on the first invocation also happens when I play the sample using the player integrated in Finder, so I owe you a big apology. I am sorry! I can also no longer reproduce the looping failure after my last reboot :-S. Btw. the latency of AudioClip on the Mac (2012 MBP) is not quite low enough to implement something like a drum kit using the keyboard. I don't know if that is the benchmark you are after or if that is also a limitation of the hosting system. I need to test that with other applications. The latency I get with AudioClip is good enough for my current use case, though. @Joe: I am using 10.10.1, just realized I never answered that Best regards, Robert On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 2:51 AM, David DeHaven <david.deha...@oracle.com> wrote: > > > anyone doing serious work with the media player on the Mac? I am > > experimenting and so far I am not getting the impression, this is really > > something very solid. > > > > The first Audio-Sample I tried playing plays fine the first time but > when I > > play it for a second time by either issuing stop() followed by play() or > > seek(new Duration(0) and then play, the playback cuts off a few samples > at > > the start (does not happen when I instantiate a new Player for each time > I > > want to play it, which does not feel right). You need a suitable audio > file > > like a drum beat that starts immediately in the file to notice the > > difference. > > > > If one was to implement simple sample-player-like functionality (not a > full > > fledged music sequencer but something that allows timed playback to > arrange > > sounds on a timeline a bit) in JavaFX, should Mediaplayer be the tool to > > use or do I have to use native APIs? Last time I checked JavaSound, it > was > > still an abandoned toy usable only for educational purposes but not for > > anything else. Don't know if that has changed or if this is even the > Audio > > strategy for JFX. > > > > Would be great if someone could share experience/opinions in this area. > > Have you tried AudioClip instead of MediaPlayer? > > -DrD- > > -- Robert Krüger Managing Partner Lesspain GmbH & Co. KG www.lesspain-software.com
