So let's say I got a lot of different audio files called beat.wav, beat2.wav, beat3.wav, beat4.wav ... and I want to play them randomly within a pd patch.

But instead of specifying a new path for each file I want to change one existing path dynamically. I tried something like this just to test if I can change the path.

https://i.imgur.com/c1v15O2.jpg

But that gives me an error. Any advice?

@cixxx Probably....... probably.zip
It is likely that the "open" message has the wrong path.
In the above example the tracks.... beat1... beat2 etc. are in a folder speak/name which is in the same folder as the patch (Desktop?)........
Except that I have only put "beat1.wav" so there will be errors for the other missing tracks.
David.

Thank You, the path was right, when I put in 'beat' manually where the $1 is it worked.

The error i got was 'argument number out of range'