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When I run my method, I get a MediaException. I call the method with playSound("src/assets/timeup.mp3");.

private void playSound(String path) {
        System.out.println(path);
        Media hit = new Media(new File(path).toURI().toString());
        System.out.println(hit.getSource());
        MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer(hit);
        mediaPlayer.play();
    }

Log:

src/assets/timeup.mp3
file:/media/chris/1%20TB%20Data/Eclipse/workspace/DrEggTimer/src/assets/timeup.mp3
Exception in thread "main" MediaException: UNKNOWN : com.sun.media.jfxmedia.MediaException: Could not create player! : com.sun.media.jfxmedia.MediaException: Could not create player!
    at javafx.scene.media.MediaException.exceptionToMediaException(MediaException.java:146)
    at javafx.scene.media.MediaPlayer.init(MediaPlayer.java:511)
    at javafx.scene.media.MediaPlayer.<init>(MediaPlayer.java:414)
    at timer.Timer.playSound(Timer.java:53)
    at timer.Timer.<init>(Timer.java:58)
    at timer.Timer.main(Timer.java:39)
Caused by: com.sun.media.jfxmedia.MediaException: Could not create player!
    at com.sun.media.jfxmediaimpl.NativeMediaManager.getPlayer(NativeMediaManager.java:222)
    at com.sun.media.jfxmedia.MediaManager.getPlayer(MediaManager.java:104)
    at javafx.scene.media.MediaPlayer.init(MediaPlayer.java:467)
    ... 4 more

My project is on an external drive and I am linking it to my main drive with a symlink. I am running Eclipse on the main drive. I don't believe that should cause any problems though.

Christopher Smith
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If you are on linux (which it appears you are from your stacktrace). You need to install libavformat53 and libavcodec53 for javafx's MediaPlayer to work, else you will get that error.

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  • How do you do that on Fedora? (Seems like maybe you could answer your own question now: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27475902/fedora-21-javafx-not-creating-mediaplayer ) – Travis Well Sep 12 '16 at 22:51
  • On fedora it's a bit tricky. I needed to manually find and install libavcodec53 and all of it's dependency rpms as previous versions of the libav libraries are no longer included in the official repositories. – randomlinuxmod Oct 09 '16 at 17:43