Something like this will let you select a random file from a folder:

jan.

here is another way of doing it, based on the same idea. but here you can see the data and choose it manually or randomly (if you hook up your random number generator to a [send selCell] object or the right inlet of the bpatcher).

happy patching

thank you both. gonna try the methods this evening and see how it goes.

josh

hi martin -

thank you for your patches - really appreciate it.

ive been trying to get the patch to work with video but even when i add msg's with mp4 or mov or even jpeg it doesnt let files into the bpathcer. any ideas?

thanks,

josh

Open the umenu inspector, Files tab, look at "File types". For the moment, umenu is filtering, and accepting only .mov files. Erase to accept all files in a folder, regardless of type. J-F.

sorted.

huge thanks to everyone.

josh.