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I've seen a lot of posts about sfplay, but can't find anything about this specific problem I'm having.

simply trying to load wav files into either an sfplay~ object or an sflist~ object to be referenced. ( I am running the latest version of max on os 10.4 ). I have a list of files in a text file formatted for a coll object. The filepaths are dumped out of the coll and sequentially added to the sfplay~ object using the preload command. The problem is that max never is able to find the files. I'm using the full file path as the argument, for example "Hard Drive:/Users/Colin/Desktop/Max/file.wav". I've also tried just "/Users/Colin/Desktop/Max/file.wav". That did not work, so I tried adding the directory to the list of search paths in max and then opening the file using the filename. This did not work at first, however, I changed the filename to temp.wav and it did. The original file was formatted as artist_album_track_name_temp.wav. I then shortened this to artist_track_name.wav and it did work. There are no strange characters in any of the directory or filenames, only a-z and underscores. Is there a limitation to the number of characters that max can read into an sfplay open argument?? That seems very unlikely but I really don't know what to do.

I've seen a lot of posts about sfplay, but can't find anything about this specific problem I'm having. 

I'm
simply trying to load wav files into either an sfplay~ object or an sflist~ object to be referenced.  ( I am running the latest version of max on os 10.4 ).  I have a list of files in a text file formatted for a coll object.  The filepaths are dumped out of the coll and sequentially added to the sfplay~ object using the preload command.  The problem is that max never is able to find the files.  I'm using the full file path as the argument, for example "Hard Drive:/Users/Colin/Desktop/Max/file.wav".  I've also tried just "/Users/Colin/Desktop/Max/file.wav".  That did not work, so I tried adding the directory to the list of search paths in max and then opening the file using the filename.  This did not work at first, however, I changed the filename to temp.wav and it did.  The original file was formatted as artist_album_track_name_temp.wav.  I then shortened this to artist_track_name.wav and it did work.  There are no strange characters in any of the directory or filenames, only a-z and underscores.  Is there a limitation to the number of characters that max can read into an sfplay open argument??  That seems very unlikely but I really don't know what to do.

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> Is there a limitation to the number of characters that max can read

> into an sfplay open argument?? That seems very unlikely but I really

The limitation to 31 characters an historical artifact coming from Os 9, 

which till now has not been fixed unfortunately. As cycling is heavily 

working on Max 5, I'd suggest to rename the files to shorter ones till 

(I guess it would not be a quick fix, as system libraries are involved, 

and thus I think they prefer the solid change for Max 5...)

If Max 5 still wouldn't be able to deal with longer file names I'd want 

Colin Mann schrieb:
> Is there a limitation to the number of characters that max can read
> into an sfplay open argument??  That seems very unlikely but I really
> don't know what to do.

The limitation to 31 characters an historical artifact coming from Os 9, 
which till now has not been fixed unfortunately. As cycling is heavily 
working on Max 5, I'd suggest to rename the files to shorter ones till 
Max 5 is out.
(I guess it would not be a quick fix, as system libraries are involved, 
and thus I think they prefer the solid change for Max 5...)
If Max 5 still wouldn't be able to deal with longer file names I'd want 
my money back... ;-)

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awesome guys, I would never have guessed that. Thanks a miiliion. Now I just have to figure out how to put my computer back together after throwing it at the wall....

awesome guys, I would never have guessed that.  Thanks a miiliion.  Now I just have to figure out how to put my computer back together after throwing it at the wall....


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