Hey all,

I am following this forum silently for a while, feeling grateful for all this effort here. I am making a patch for a sound installation [attached] and I need some help making it more convenient for myself and others. The patch is relative simple, randomly playback samples from the hard-drive using the readsf~ object. At the moment it directly opens and play the samples from a specific location on the drive. This is a problem if I want to share the patch with other users as they will need to change the pathname I have used on my computer to access the samples. Additionally, it's a bummer for myself if I want to easily change the samples and test some others. I have to change each pathname manually. Ideally I will want to throw the samples into pd and leave it do the rest with my patch.. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
ichorous.pd

Hi,
considers using [makefilename]. And you can skip [select].

Did not look into your patch, but this outputs random filenames, stored in a [text]

random-sound-file-from-dir.pd

4 months later EDIT: with list: https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/14522/is-it-possible-to-group-different-soundfiles-in-only-one-message/2

I was looking into the [makefilename] solution from another patch I found yesterday and then your reply... Great! There so many ways to make something possible in pd, the quest is to find the most elegant one. Thanks a lot! I will share the patch in the forum when it is ready.

@lacuna This is exactly what I was looking for, although at first read it is difficult to understand exactly how it works... How do I pass the filename from [text get $0-dirfiles] into [open] and then [readsf~] ?

read this patch from left to right

a) load a directory with sound files
b ) add more files if you want
c) connect this to the outlet:

[open $1, start(
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[readsf~]
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[dac~]

d) bang the random file player.

@lacuna It worked! thank you!