Hi all,

I'm creating a project with lots (literally hundredths) of samples I want to play kind of randomly. I'm new on PD, and right now I'm working on my prototype with the classic message [open soundfile.wav, 1] to play each one of them. But I need to scale it more efficiently and I'm not finding a solution. Does anyone know if there is a method to group different files in a message and select one of them randomly?

I was wondering if it is possible to build something like this:

[O]
|
[random 858]
|
[sel $1]
|
[O]
|
[file_0.wav, file_1.wav, file_2.wav, file_3.wav, file_4.wav, file_5.wav (...) file_857.wav]
|
[readsf~]
|
[dac~]

Thanks in advance, I'm learning a lot in this community.
Cheers!

@Carlos You need to put the file names in [list store] and use its [get( method. You can also use [list store]'s [delete( method if you only want it to play each file once but then you also need to add a counter to decrease the the value to the right inlet of [random].
random-play.pd