playing .mp3 file in java using notepad

Question

I know this is a repeat question. check original one here or here.

So my code is just the copy paste :

import javafx.scene.media.*;

class Gui {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    try{
        Media hit = new Media("skin.mp3");
        MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer(hit);
        mediaPlayer.play();
    }catch(Exception e){
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}

The exception which i'm getting is :

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: uri.getScheme() == null!
        at com.sun.media.jfxmedia.locator.Locator.<init>(Locator.java:217)
        at javafx.scene.media.Media.<init>(Media.java:364)
        at Gui.main(gui.java:6)

I'm compiling & running it correctly i.e. by including the jfxrt.jar file in classpath

Note: I'm just using notepad instead of any IDE.

So can anyone tell me the reason of IllegalArgumentException

Thankx

UPDATE : By using file://e:/skin.mp3 it worked fine but left me with another exception :

MediaException: MEDIA_INACCESSIBLE : e
        at javafx.scene.media.Media.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at Gui.main(gui.java:6)

So if you can put some light on this exception.

By the way i've checked the song, its not corrupt because it is playing nicely in vlc.

Answer 1

From the JavaFX API docs

• The supplied URI must conform to RFC-2396 as required by java.net.URI.
• Only HTTP, FILE, and JAR URIs are supported.

So, I suspect from reading the docs, you need to supply a URI path.

Something like file://path/to/file/skin.mp3 will probably work.