Playing sounds in java application

[Torquemada]

Hello I want to know why my applications stops responding for approx. 1 sec when I play sounds rapidly.

This is the method I use

private void playSound(int index)
{
//sound.stop();
sound = JApplet.newAudi oClip(url[index]);
sound.play();
}



The index points to a specific URL array which keeps the location of the wav. file.
If I play sounds repeatiply say every 100ms the application stops responding for 1 sec. If I stop the previous sound with sound.stop() then it´s ok but I want the new sound to overlap the old one not to restart it.

[Torquemada]

This is the second forum I have asked the same question without any reply. Can nobody help?

[Niheel]

You don't want there to be a delay inbetween songs? Is this for a web-application or desktop application?

[Torquemada]

It´s a desktop application. Im making a space-shooter game, when you click the fire button the space ship shoots laser and a laser sound is played. You can shoot very fast so when you fire the second laser the other laser-sound is already playing and the new laser sound overlaps the old one. The problem is when I fire rapidly the application stops responding for a second as if it can´t handle so many sounds at a time.

[vocabList32]

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javatips/jw-javatip24.html

[Torquemada]

Using the sun.audio package seems to work much better, thanks for the link.