Incorporating media into a JavaFX application

JavaFX provides the means to play media files in the javafx.scene.media package. It supports the following media formats:

• MP3
• MP4
• AIFF
• WAV
• FLV

You can find all the latest details in the JavaDoc: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/10/docs/api/javafx/scene/media/package-summary.html.

Adding audio clips

The simplest form of media is an AudioClip, which works best for short sounds such as a button click. Note that AudioClip is not dedicated to longer audio or music sequences for the following reasons:

• It holds the whole clip in memory.
• It doesn't provide any API for choosing the playback time.

The AudioClip API is very simple; it doesn't require any extra objects and is recommended...