I have the following patch that can play just fine one audio file based on button press

I will have an encoder rotary that will print numbers between 1 to 9 and I would like to play tracks accordingly
what is the best method of playing multiple files without the need to multiple everything?

Thanks

@KMETE I suppose you have to preload the tracks using [[sf-play2~]
It is a lot easier to use [readsf~] and play tracks by message.
If they are named with sequential numbers the button press numbers could replace $1 in the [open....( message.

With [sf-play2~] I think you will have to use multiple players as you did here......
https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/14241/scaling-the-gain-of-multiple-sf-play2-objects
David.

Thanks, I will give a try for the readsf~

I was wondering if there is any difference between multiple sf-play2~ or readsf~ in term of memory usage?

@KMETE said:

what is the best method of playing multiple files without the need to multiple everything?

sf-play2~ accepts a symbol in the right-hand inlet, to change the buffer being played. (That is, this -- "With [sf-play2~] I think you will have to use multiple players as you did here" -- is incorrect. I'd be a terrible programmer if I made the abstraction so inflexible.)

hjh

@KMETE said:

I was wondering if there is any difference between multiple sf-play2~ or readsf~ in term of memory usage?

[stereofile] loads the contents into RAM. (sf-play2~ is only the player, not the loader, but it depends on audio data loaded into RAM by stereofile.)

readsf~ streams from disk so its RAM usage should be much smaller.

One of the reasons why I worked on stereofile and sf-play2~ is that I think if you tell it to play an audio file at rate = 1, then it should sound like the file's normal speed at any Pd sample rate. Pd's built-in [tabplay~] does not do this -- if the system sample rate differs from the file's rate, it will play faster or slower than normal. That is, system settings affect the patch's behavior . I think [readsf~] also has this problem but I haven't checked, could be wrong about that.

hjh

@ddw_music thanks! that is great feature changing the buffer being played from the right-hand inlet of the sf-play2~

I would like to build a few system like those that each system will play a different album of a musician. so one musician will have an album with 7 track with different names and another musician will have an album with 5 track of different names.

the one thing in common that all track will be numbered but I'm assuming that the names of the track will be with spaces - for example:
01 sunny days are over
02 hello
etc etc

what is the best way to load multiple track into buffer with track named as above? Do I must change the names to be without spaces? 01_sunny_days_are_over 02_hello

should I make a list of names inside a coll object? should I make a doc files in the patch folder and load the names from it? what is your suggestions?

Many thanks

@KMETE There is a Vanilla solution....... for all spaces in the file path and the file name.....
concat.zip
It will fill the spaces with an empty symbol and create a single symbol, without having to know about the format as you would have to with [makefilename].
David.