I am working on a chat application in java. My program need to play sounds at regular interval as the message arrives. What are the sound format should I choose to play on (Windows/Linux/MacOS) platforms, without using external liberaries
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Sound-formats are all platform independent. The question is: Is there a Codec on the target platform which supports this format.
If you're developing a chat-application i guess you won't use high quality audio things, so Sun Audio-files should work for you. Check out this older post on how to use them.
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I dont want to rely on a specific codec, there are some formats supported on almost all platforms/or you can say codecs available like midi format are there other alternatives too – Rajeev May 20 '11 at 09:19
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The `Sun Audio`-format is available on every platform that supports the JVM. It comes with the Java Installation. – Lukas Knuth May 20 '11 at 09:49
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For some reason .ao seems to be the lowest common denominator for Java, while .wav seems to be used almost everywhere else for notification-sounds (or possibly even .ogg or .mp3).
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1The thing with MP3 is that Java doesn't have native support for it. But you're right about .wav and .ogg – Lukas Knuth May 20 '11 at 09:50
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Is .wav format supported on all platforms, I thought its native to windows. – Rajeev May 20 '11 at 10:53