Thread: Playing sound file not working

Hey all,

I tried out this video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ameD1ocbn9s

Now I want to change this, to play the file directly with java, with the javafx player:

String source = f.toURI().toString();
Media media = null;
media = new Media(source);
MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer(media);
mediaPlayer.play();

But I get an "Toolkit not initialized" error. I cant figure out why this is happening?

I find out why this exception is thrown:

JavaFX performs "hidden" initialization on start. Running MediaPlayer doesn't trigger initialization.

The easiest ways to trigger it are:

have Application.launch() executed
have Application based program being run from jar packaged by fx ant tasks (e.g. built from Netbeans JavaFX project)
have JFXPanel started

So which is the best way?