Error when playing a sound in Processing, help!

[BRosa99]

I am doing a uni project with Processing. However, when wanting to play a sound file, I keep getting this error. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Kind regards,
Rosa

[kevinstadler]

I think you just need to add a draw() method (even if it's an empty one). There is actually no error in your code, the sketch just stops running immediately because there is no draw() method to run.
Please let me know if that fixes your problem!

[BRosa99]

Thanks for the quick response! However, I already have a draw method (sorry, was not visible on the screenshot), so that cannot be the problem... When I delete the sound related commands, my program works fine. So it is really the soundFile that causes problems I think

[kevinstadler]

Is anything about the sketch actually broken, or is it just that you can't hear the sound file? Despite what it looks like, the red text in the console is not actually an error, it's just a status message by the sound library.

[BRosa99]

Ah thanks! I fixed it, the problem was the sound file itsself, not the programming code... Do you by any chance know how you can play a sound file for just on second and that it then stops?

[kevinstadler]

There is no built-in function for having it stop after one second, you'll probably have to store the time when you invoke file.play() (probably using Processing's millis() function), then check in draw() how much time has elapsed since and then call file.stop() if it's been more than a second.