As a newbie I just want to load a sample and play it

[zonrobin]

Look here, this might’ve helped you:

www.juce.com/doc/tutorial_looping_audio_sample_buffer

Also here it’s discussed:

Converting Wav file to float array

Hello I am trying to read a wav file and turn it into a float array for manipulation… I have searched the forum and tried a few approaches to this, but to no avail. I have tried using read from AudioFormatReader to at least extract an int** but couldn’t get this to work (resulted in bad_access error in XCode). I’ve also tried using a FileInputStream and the readFloat function, which seems to almost work, but when I tried to output the resulting array I just got a nasty sound from the speaker…

For the waveform you can use AudioVisualiserComponent