Using JFileChooser to load Media files

Question

I'm trying to use a JFileChooser to load files to play in a MediaPlayer. I'm thinking I have to get the URI as a string to achieve this, however, I get errors on illegal characters where there are spaces in the uri. I tried to prevent this by replacing spaces with %20, but it doesn't seem to do anything.

Is there any way to get around this or should I use a completely different maneuver to load sound files?

My method looks as follows:

private void openFile()
    {
        int returnVal = fileChooser.showOpenDialog(frame);

        if(returnVal == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
            File selectedFile = fileChooser.getSelectedFile();
            String uri = selectedFile.getPath();
            String fileToAdd = uri.replace(" ", "%20");
            tracklist.addTrack(fileToAdd);
        }                
    }

Answer 1

You could simply use File#toURI which will give you a URI, which could then use toString to generate a String representation of the URI which could then be added to the list...