Is it bad practice to pass instances through several layers?

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Published on 2012-09-27T12:32:25Z Indexed on 2012/09/27 15:50 UTC
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In my program design, I often come to the point where I have to pass object instances through several classes. For example, if I have a controller that loads an audio file, and then passes it to a player, and the player passes it to the playerRunnable, which passes it again somewhere else etc. It looks kind of bad, but I don´t know how to avoid it. Or is it OK to do this?

EDIT: Maybe the player example is not the best because I could load the file later, but in other cases that does not work.

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