Description: Sound creates mood, triggers memories, and in conjunction with visual imagery weaves whole worlds of fantasy. Sound is the cornerstone of multimedia content. That's why Sun's Java Media team is busy readying the Java Sound 1.0 API for inclusion with the next release of the Java Development Kit (JDK). Prior to the advent of the Java 2 platform, the language handled only telephone quality sound, in the form of µ-law AU files recorded in mono at an 8 kHz sampling rate. The Java 2 platform adds support for AIFF, WAV and three types of MIDI formats. The supported MIDI formats are Type 0 MIDI, Type 1 MIDI, and RMF.
