This seems simple but has got me scratching my head!

I have a music player patch, there are 200 tracks on the player and I want to find the most popular.

I'm listing the amount of times played in an array, how can I find the most commonly played entry?

Finding the highest number is easy but how do I relate that to a specific index?

@soapdodger In extended..... in the iem_tab library..... was [tab_max_index] .......
But of course you will not want to use that as Extended is no longer maintained.

There is a similar function for [array] in modern vanilla, but it gives the index on the right outlet.
Right-click [array] for help and you will see it....... [array max]
David.

If you're using a recent Pd vanilla (0.49), you can do this easily using the built in [array] object. You can read more about it in the help browser: Pure Data/5.reference/array-object-help.pd

If I were tracking the play counts of 200 audio files, I would use [array define playcount 200] for storage of the stats, with each index representing a specific track. When a track is played, get the previous count at that index using [array get playcount], then add 1 to that total and use [array set playcount] to update the index. Finally, when you want to find the index with the greatest number of plays, use [array max playcount].

Things would get a little more complicated if you wanted a top 10 most played, etc., but totally doable either in vanilla or with externals.

UPDATE: @whale-av edited his reply to mention this too!

I'm using extended for this project so [tab_max_index] worked, after I realised I needed to ad the array as an argument.

thanks!