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Trying to record computer audio (not Microphone) [duplicate]

Using Java is it possible to capture the speaker output? This output is not being generated by my program but rather by other running applications. Can this be done with Java or will I need to resort to C/C++?

I had a Java based app. that used Java Sound to tap into the sound flowing through the system to make a trace of it. It worked well on my own (Windows based) machine, but failed completely on some others.
It was determined that in order to get it working on those machines, would take nothing short of an audio loop-back in either software or hardware (e.g. connect a lead from the speaker 'out' jack to the microphone 'in' jack).
Since all I really wanted to do was plot the trace for music, and I figured how to play the target format (MP3) in Java, it became unnecessary to pursue the other option further.
(And I also heard that Java Sound on Mac. was horribly broken, but I never looked closely into it.)

Java is not the best tool when dealing with the OS. If you need/want to use it for this task, probably you will end using Java Native Interface (JNI), linking to libraries compiled in other languages (probably c/c++).

Take an AUX cable, connect to HEADPHONE JACK and other end to MICROPHONE JACK and run this code
https://www.codejava.net/coding/capture-and-record-sound-into-wav-file-with-java-sound-api
import javax.sound.sampled.*;
import java.io.*;
public class JavaSoundRecorder {
// record duration, in milliseconds
static final long RECORD_TIME = 60000; // 1 minute
// path of the wav file
File wavFile = new File("E:/Test/RecordAudio.wav");
// format of audio file
AudioFileFormat.Type fileType = AudioFileFormat.Type.WAVE;
// the line from which audio data is captured
TargetDataLine line;
/**
* Defines an audio format
*/
AudioFormat getAudioFormat() {
float sampleRate = 16000;
int sampleSizeInBits = 8;
int channels = 2;
boolean signed = true;
boolean bigEndian = true;
AudioFormat format = new AudioFormat(sampleRate, sampleSizeInBits,
channels, signed, bigEndian);
return format;
}
/**
* Captures the sound and record into a WAV file
*/
void start() {
try {
AudioFormat format = getAudioFormat();
DataLine.Info info = new DataLine.Info(TargetDataLine.class, format);
// checks if system supports the data line
if (!AudioSystem.isLineSupported(info)) {
System.out.println("Line not supported");
System.exit(0);
}
line = (TargetDataLine) AudioSystem.getLine(info);
line.open(format);
line.start(); // start capturing
System.out.println("Start capturing...");
AudioInputStream ais = new AudioInputStream(line);
System.out.println("Start recording...");
// start recording
AudioSystem.write(ais, fileType, wavFile);
} catch (LineUnavailableException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException ioe) {
ioe.printStackTrace();
}
}
/**
* Closes the target data line to finish capturing and recording
*/
void finish() {
line.stop();
line.close();
System.out.println("Finished");
}
/**
* Entry to run the program
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
final JavaSoundRecorder recorder = new JavaSoundRecorder();
// creates a new thread that waits for a specified
// of time before stopping
Thread stopper = new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
try {
Thread.sleep(RECORD_TIME);
} catch (InterruptedException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
recorder.finish();
}
});
stopper.start();
// start recording
recorder.start();
}
}

Capture audio going to speakers [duplicate]

Using Java is it possible to capture the speaker output? This output is not being generated by my program but rather by other running applications. Can this be done with Java or will I need to resort to C/C++?

I had a Java based app. that used Java Sound to tap into the sound flowing through the system to make a trace of it. It worked well on my own (Windows based) machine, but failed completely on some others.
It was determined that in order to get it working on those machines, would take nothing short of an audio loop-back in either software or hardware (e.g. connect a lead from the speaker 'out' jack to the microphone 'in' jack).
Since all I really wanted to do was plot the trace for music, and I figured how to play the target format (MP3) in Java, it became unnecessary to pursue the other option further.
(And I also heard that Java Sound on Mac. was horribly broken, but I never looked closely into it.)

Java is not the best tool when dealing with the OS. If you need/want to use it for this task, probably you will end using Java Native Interface (JNI), linking to libraries compiled in other languages (probably c/c++).

Take an AUX cable, connect to HEADPHONE JACK and other end to MICROPHONE JACK and run this code
https://www.codejava.net/coding/capture-and-record-sound-into-wav-file-with-java-sound-api
import javax.sound.sampled.*;
import java.io.*;
public class JavaSoundRecorder {
// record duration, in milliseconds
static final long RECORD_TIME = 60000; // 1 minute
// path of the wav file
File wavFile = new File("E:/Test/RecordAudio.wav");
// format of audio file
AudioFileFormat.Type fileType = AudioFileFormat.Type.WAVE;
// the line from which audio data is captured
TargetDataLine line;
/**
* Defines an audio format
*/
AudioFormat getAudioFormat() {
float sampleRate = 16000;
int sampleSizeInBits = 8;
int channels = 2;
boolean signed = true;
boolean bigEndian = true;
AudioFormat format = new AudioFormat(sampleRate, sampleSizeInBits,
channels, signed, bigEndian);
return format;
}
/**
* Captures the sound and record into a WAV file
*/
void start() {
try {
AudioFormat format = getAudioFormat();
DataLine.Info info = new DataLine.Info(TargetDataLine.class, format);
// checks if system supports the data line
if (!AudioSystem.isLineSupported(info)) {
System.out.println("Line not supported");
System.exit(0);
}
line = (TargetDataLine) AudioSystem.getLine(info);
line.open(format);
line.start(); // start capturing
System.out.println("Start capturing...");
AudioInputStream ais = new AudioInputStream(line);
System.out.println("Start recording...");
// start recording
AudioSystem.write(ais, fileType, wavFile);
} catch (LineUnavailableException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException ioe) {
ioe.printStackTrace();
}
}
/**
* Closes the target data line to finish capturing and recording
*/
void finish() {
line.stop();
line.close();
System.out.println("Finished");
}
/**
* Entry to run the program
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
final JavaSoundRecorder recorder = new JavaSoundRecorder();
// creates a new thread that waits for a specified
// of time before stopping
Thread stopper = new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
try {
Thread.sleep(RECORD_TIME);
} catch (InterruptedException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
recorder.finish();
}
});
stopper.start();
// start recording
recorder.start();
}
}

hardware mic control

How can I control the mic on-off function using java code? I need to control the time for which mic is on.
I tried using the following code in java:
final AudioFormat format = getFormat();//getformat() has the audio format
DataLine.Info info = new DataLine.Info(TargetDataLine.class, format);
final TargetDataLine line = (TargetDataLine) AudioSystem.getLine(info);
line.open(format); //open mic for input
line.start();
byte[] buffer = new byte[1048576];
OutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();//output the audio to buffer
boolean running = true;
try {
while (running) {
int count = line.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length);
running=false;
if (count > 0) {
out.write(buffer, 0, count);
}
}
out.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Error");
System.err.println("I/O problems: " + e);
System.exit(-1);
}
But this basically depends on the the size of buffer. And the while loop can input audio for 30secs per pass.
I need to take the sample inputs for just 10secs.
any help?? thanks.:)

It seems you are trying to control the duration of the miking via the size of the buffer. I'm pretty sure this isn't common practice. Usually one uses a buffer that is a fraction of a second in size (to keep latency low), and iterates through it repeatedly. To control the duration of an open-ended read or playback operation, it is more usual to change the value of the "running" boolean.
Thus, from outside of the loop, code updates the "running" boolean, and when the loop notices that there has been a request to stop, the read loop ends.
I'm not up on specifics as to how one gets permission to turn on a mike or not. I know the java sound tutorials talk about it.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/sound/capturing.html
In their example, they use a boolean "stopped" to control when to end the recording loop.

Playing wavs in Java

So, I'm working on a project for class wherein we have to have a game with background music. I'm trying to play a .wav file as background music, but since I can't use clips (too short for a music file) I have to play with the AudioStream.
In my first implementation, the game would hang until the song finished, so I threw it into its own thread to try and alleviate that. Currently, the game plays very slowly while the song plays. I'm not sure what I need to do to make this thread play nice with my animator thread, because we we're never formally taught threads. Below is my background music player class, please someone tell me what I've done wrong that makes it hog all the system resources.
public class BGMusicPlayer implements Runnable {
File file;
AudioInputStream in;
SourceDataLine line;
int frameSize;
byte[] buffer = new byte [32 * 1024];
Thread player;
boolean playing = false;
boolean fileNotOver = true;
public BGMusicPlayer (File inputFile){
try{
file = inputFile;
in = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream (inputFile);
AudioFormat format = in.getFormat();
frameSize = format.getFrameSize();
DataLine.Info info =new DataLine.Info (SourceDataLine.class, format);
line = (SourceDataLine) AudioSystem.getLine (info);
line.open();
player = new Thread (this);
player.start();
}
catch(Exception e){
System.out.println("That is not a valid file. No music for you.");
}
}
public void run() {
int readPoint = 0;
int bytesRead = 0;
player.setPriority(Thread.MIN_PRIORITY);
while (fileNotOver) {
if (playing) {
try {
bytesRead = in.read (buffer,
readPoint,
buffer.length - readPoint);
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
if (bytesRead == -1) {
fileNotOver = false;
break;
}
int leftover = bytesRead % frameSize;
// send to line
line.write (buffer, readPoint, bytesRead-leftover);
// save the leftover bytes
System.arraycopy (buffer, bytesRead,
buffer, 0,
leftover);
readPoint = leftover;
try {
Thread.sleep(20);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
public void start() {
playing = true;
if(!player.isAlive())
player.start();
line.start();
}
public void stop() {
playing = false;
line.stop();
}
}

You are pretty close, but there are a couple of unusual things that maybe are contributing to the performance problem.
First off, if you are just playing back a .wav, there shouldn't really be a need to deal with any "readpoint" but a value of 0, and there shouldn't really be a need for a "leftover" computation. When you do the write, it should simply be the same number of bytes that were read in (return value of the read() method).
I'm also unclear why you are doing the ArrayCopy. Can you lose that?
Setting the Thread to low priority, and putting a Sleep--I guess you were hoping those would slow down the audio processing to allow more of your game to process? I've never seen this done before and it is really unusual if it is truly needed. I really recommend getting rid of these as well.
I'm curious where your audio file is coming from. Your not streaming it over the web, are you?
By the way, the way you get your input from a File and place it into an InputStream very likely won't work with Java7. A lot of folks are reporting a bug with that. It turns out it is more correct and efficient to generate a URL from the File, and then get the AudioInputStream using the URL as the argument rather than the file. The error that can come up is a "Mark/Reset" error. (A search on that will show its come up a number of times here.)

How to play audio in Java Application

I'm making a java application and I need to play audio. I'm playing mainly small sound files of my cannon firing (its a cannon shooting game) and the projectiles exploding, though I plan on having looping background music. I have found two different methods to accomplish this, but both don't work how I want.
The first method is literally a method:
public void playSoundFile(File file) {//http://java.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/java-l/sound-in-an-application-90681
try {
//get an AudioInputStream
AudioInputStream ais = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(file);
//get the AudioFormat for the AudioInputStream
AudioFormat audioformat = ais.getFormat();
System.out.println("Format: " + audioformat.toString());
System.out.println("Encoding: " + audioformat.getEncoding());
System.out.println("SampleRate:" + audioformat.getSampleRate());
System.out.println("SampleSizeInBits: " + audioformat.getSampleSizeInBits());
System.out.println("Channels: " + audioformat.getChannels());
System.out.println("FrameSize: " + audioformat.getFrameSize());
System.out.println("FrameRate: " + audioformat.getFrameRate());
System.out.println("BigEndian: " + audioformat.isBigEndian());
//ULAW format to PCM format conversion
if ((audioformat.getEncoding() == AudioFormat.Encoding.ULAW)
|| (audioformat.getEncoding() == AudioFormat.Encoding.ALAW)) {
AudioFormat newformat = new AudioFormat(AudioFormat.Encoding.PCM_SIGNED,
audioformat.getSampleRate(),
audioformat.getSampleSizeInBits() * 2,
audioformat.getChannels(),
audioformat.getFrameSize() * 2,
audioformat.getFrameRate(), true);
ais = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(newformat, ais);
audioformat = newformat;
}
//checking for a supported output line
DataLine.Info datalineinfo = new DataLine.Info(SourceDataLine.class, audioformat);
if (!AudioSystem.isLineSupported(datalineinfo)) {
//System.out.println("Line matching " + datalineinfo + " is not supported.");
} else {
//System.out.println("Line matching " + datalineinfo + " is supported.");
//opening the sound output line
SourceDataLine sourcedataline = (SourceDataLine) AudioSystem.getLine(datalineinfo);
sourcedataline.open(audioformat);
sourcedataline.start();
//Copy data from the input stream to the output data line
int framesizeinbytes = audioformat.getFrameSize();
int bufferlengthinframes = sourcedataline.getBufferSize() / 8;
int bufferlengthinbytes = bufferlengthinframes * framesizeinbytes;
byte[] sounddata = new byte[bufferlengthinbytes];
int numberofbytesread = 0;
while ((numberofbytesread = ais.read(sounddata)) != -1) {
int numberofbytesremaining = numberofbytesread;
sourcedataline.write(sounddata, 0, numberofbytesread);
}
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
The problem with this is that my entire program stops until the sound file is finished, or at least nearly finished.
The second method is this:
File file = new File("Launch1.wav");
AudioClip clip;
try {
clip = JApplet.newAudioClip(file.toURL());
clip.play();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.getMessage();
}
The problem I have here is that every time the sound file ends early or doesn't play at all depending on where I place the code.
Is their any way to play sound without the above mentioned problems? Am I doing something wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated.

For the first method you have to create another thread for audio.
For example like this:
new Thread(
new Runnable() {
public void run() {
try {
// PLAY AUDIO CODE
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}).start();
Of course you have to make sure that previous sound isn't still playing.

I guess you should run your playSound method in a background thread as mentioned in the doc here
"you'll probably want to invoke this
playback loop in a separate thread
from the rest of the application
program, so that your program doesn't
appear to freeze when playing a long
sound"
Maybe by doing something like
// shared executor
ExecutorService soundExecutor = ...; //Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();
...
final File soundFile = ...;
soundExecutor.submit(new Runnable(){
public void run(){
SoundUtils.playSoundFile(soundFile);
}
});

The problem with this is that my entire program stops until the sound file is finished, or at least nearly finished.
This screams a threading issue. Have you tried playing the sound in a background thread? By the way, is this a Swing program? If so, use a SwingWorker to play the sound. There are many reasons for this, but one primary reason is that it's easy to track the state of the thread via the PropertyChangeListener support built in to SwingWorker.

You should create a thread that handles the audio playback. But make sure that it is able to mix in sounds, so two shots that happen after each other can get their sounds played at the correct time, without waiting for the prior sound to finish.
There should be Frameworks out there that do the mixing for you.
A good starting point is:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/index-jsp-140239.html