# How do I play Audio in Java?
**URL:** https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-do-i-play-audio-in-java/603932
**Category:** Audio & Video
**Tags:** Scripting
**Created:** [November 3, 2015, 11:52am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-do-i-play-audio-in-java/603932 "2015-11-03T11:52:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@SD2020](https://discussions.unity.com/u/SD2020)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2015, 11:52am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-do-i-play-audio-in-java/603932/1 "2015-11-03T11:52:03Z")
I have been doing some college work and i am trying to make it so when i click to shoot it plays a sound! I have the “var ShootSound : AudioSource” i just need the line of code to trigger the sound to play.
Can someone please help me!
Thanks.
-SD2020\_
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### Author:  [@LeftyRighty](https://discussions.unity.com/u/LeftyRighty)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2015, 11:56am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-do-i-play-audio-in-java/603932/2 "2015-11-03T11:56:33Z")
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Unity doesn’t use “Java”, thats entirely different. Unity supports a version of javascript, which isn’t the same as javascript used elsewhere, usually the term “unityscript” is used to help disambiguate.
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### Author:  [@SD2020](https://discussions.unity.com/u/SD2020)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2015, 1:21pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-do-i-play-audio-in-java/603932/3 "2015-11-03T13:21:46Z")
> [@LeftyRighty](#):
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> [https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/topics/audio](https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/topics/audio)
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> Unity doesn’t use “Java”, thats entirely different. Unity supports a version of javascript, which isn’t the same as javascript used elsewhere, usually the term “unityscript” is used to help disambiguate.
I am aware, but i have done audio in javascript in unity before but confused if it was changed in unity 5. Would you know the line of code i would use to play the audio?
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### Author:  [@LeftyRighty](https://discussions.unity.com/u/LeftyRighty)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2015, 1:27pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-do-i-play-audio-in-java/603932/4 "2015-11-03T13:27:58Z")
follow link, watch the tutorials… there is one on scripting and one that covers the changes that came in unity 5, they explain it far more succinctly than a forum will.
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### Author:  [@passerbycmc](https://discussions.unity.com/u/passerbycmc)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2015, 1:29pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-do-i-play-audio-in-java/603932/5 "2015-11-03T13:29:46Z")
.play() on reference to a audio clip
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### Author:  [@LeftyRighty](https://discussions.unity.com/u/LeftyRighty)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2015, 1:33pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-do-i-play-audio-in-java/603932/6 "2015-11-03T13:33:39Z")
> [@passerbycmc](#):
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> .play() on reference to a audio clip
audioclips don’t have a play function… audiosources do. Setting the audiosource to play the correct clip is covered in the tutorials.
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### Author:  [@SD2020](https://discussions.unity.com/u/SD2020)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2015, 2:05pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-do-i-play-audio-in-java/603932/7 "2015-11-03T14:05:14Z")
> [@LeftyRighty](#):
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> audioclips don’t have a play function… audiosources do. Setting the audiosource to play the correct clip is covered in the tutorials.
Could you please give me an idea of what it would look like?