Is it possible to write an incremental audio file name automatically?

So, say I have a patch which is set to record an audio file to my desktop automatically that I want to call "test_01.aiff", is it possible to set it so that the next recording becomes "test_02.aiff" followed by "test_03.aiff" and so on, so that it's not overwriting one file continuously?

Check out the help patch for [makefilename].

Sweet, cheers Maelstorm!

Ah, just one thing - how do you bang the symbol output so that an actual filename is written?

Do you have to link the symbol to a writesf~ somehow?

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/autoname.pd

You mean to create the file? Use the [open( message for [writesf~]

[makefilename blahblah]
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[open $1(
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[writesf~]

$1 is a variable that gets replace with whatever you send to the message.

So, for instance would it be:

Message:

[open $1 /User/myusername/Desktop/(

Just trying to get an idea of the correct message structure. This throws up:

error: writesf~: usage: open [-bytes [234]] [-wave,-nextstep,-aiff] ...
... [-big,-little] [-rate ####] filename

The path should be included with the filename. And actually, now that I think about it, in recent versions of Pd you can use $1 to replace part of a symbol, so you don't even need [makefilename]:

X[+ 1]
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[open /my/path/file$1.wav(

Like the attached?

Not working for me... on 0.42.5-extended on a Mac.

The [makefilename] equivalent works fine using the same file path.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/test.pd

Works fine here, same setup.

...reboot, open patch again, now working.

Not sure what the problem was but working now. Thanks again!