How do you play audio data contained in a byte[]?

Created May 7, 2012

John Zukowski

The Java Sound API contains support for playing byte arrays. Given that this question was submited to the Applets FAQ, I'm assuming you're not using a Java runtime new enough to support that. If you are using a runtime derived from Sun, there is a sun.audio package you can try to use. It is available to IE and Netscape. Something like the following should work, though I haven't tried this in some time:

AudioData audiodata = new AudioData(byteArray);
or 
AudioData audioData = new AudioStream(url.openStream()).getData();
AudioDataStream audioStream = new AudioDataStream(audioData);
// play()
AudioPlayer.player.start(audioStream);
// loop()
ContinuousAudioDataStream continuousStream = 
  new ContinuousAudioDataStream(audioStream);
AudioPlayer.player.start(continuousStream);

If you grab the code for my AWT book from O'Reilly, you'll find a SunAudioClip class that implements java.applet.AudioClip for you.