> We're trying to play a notification sound at a regular interval (every 500ms) > in a loop. > > It should sound like "bing.bing.bing." and not like > "bing......bing..bing...bing" if you know what I mean ;) > > From the JavaDoc we were guessing that an efficient way to do this would be > to set cycle count to indefinite on the audio clip / on the media player and > call play() once. > > Observations: > - Cycle count doesn't work for mp3 files. No problem, just use WAV. > - The playback does not happen at regular intervals. -> not usable in this > scenario > > Our solution so far has been to have a scheduled executor which calls > audioclip.play() every 500 ms. This creates a new thread every time (see > stack trace below) and we don't like this approach.
For the moment this is a better solution, until we can get a few internal things fixed in AudioClip. In the current implementation there will always be at least one new thread created. There are bugs filed on this already, specifically: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8090414 https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8087423 And possibly related: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8088375 -DrD-
