claba

I'm trying to build a collective so I can run a patch on a computer that only has runtime. The patch uses about 4gb worth of sound files, and every time I try to build them into the collective, I get the beach ball of death and max freezes.

Is there something I'm doing wrong? Or maybe another way to do this?

collectives-and-soundfiles

File size limits may be the issue. In any case its probably much easier to include your sounds as a (sub)folder - (in the same location as where the runtime will reside) rather than trying to build them into a collective.

Ah ha. Wasn't sure if I had to include anything that would tell the runtime patch where to look for the files, but yeah just putting it in the same folder as the soundfiles worked like a charm. Thanks!

I have a similar question. How can you have audio files in a file that the collective/runtime will refer to them being sure that they will be found by the collective/runtime (no unexpected errors or additional actions by the user)?

You can manually place any additional files into the applications 'resources' folder. This should automatically add it to the search path for the app.

thank you! what about in case of a collective?

while building the collective, if we ask to include in the collective the folder with the needed files, all files will be compiled with the collective. Easy solution but increases significantly the collective's size.

...and the solution (in Max 8) is: 
while building the collective, if we ask to  include in the collective the folder with the needed files, all files will be compiled with the collective. Easy solution but increases significantly the collective's size.

Collectives and Soundfiles