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i have been making a patch (see enclosed) which ultimately will play up to six sounds at the same time depending on the numbers that are coming in from six distance sensors that i will be using.

at the moment i have tested it using just number boxes which play samples of my voice saying numbers. i use six instances of the coll object to store the samples and it seemed to work pretty well. eg:- if the number in the number box is '1' then the sample named 'one' will be played, and so on.

last night i tried to change the number samples and substitute them with samples from different songs...but i couldnt get the song samples to play properly (or at all) if they were stored in coll using their song names as the file name. i could only get them to play if i renamed them '1.one.wav' etc, like i had originally named the test number files.

so how can i store the song samples in a coll object and keep their original names so i can identify them easily?

hope this makes sense and someone can help me. im using max4.5

hopefully i can explain this properly...
i have been making a patch (see enclosed) which ultimately will play up to six sounds at the same time depending on the numbers that are coming in from six distance sensors that i will be using.

at the moment i have tested it using just number boxes which play samples of my voice saying numbers. i use six instances of the coll object to store the samples and it seemed to work pretty well.  eg:- if the number in the number box is '1' then the sample named 'one' will be played, and so on.

confused-about-storingplaying-samples-with-coll-object

Okay, I think you're not handling the strings correctly here. Stupidly, coll outputs something like 'symbol MacintoshHD:/blabla part 2.wav' when it only has one element at an index. Unpacking this list and using the second part will give you 'MacintoshHD:/blabla' in this case. Try to keep the path together in 1 symbol.

A better method would be something like this:

using your advice and a bit of fiddling about i managed to get it to play the sound files by leaving out the spaces in the song names.

another small question : how do i get the groove~ object to play all of the sample, regardless of its size (none of them are longer than 10 seconds)? the patch seems to only play parts of some of the samples

another small question : how do i get the groove~ object to play all of the sample, regardless of its size (none of them are longer than 10 seconds)?  the patch seems to only play parts of some of the samples

I'm not authorized to answer that question; i know too little about msp...

When you want to re-trigger the entire loop in a groove~ object you should send it the "startloop" message. This will play your entire loop from the beginning.

in my patch i have numbers continually coming in from a sensor which are then matched to a sample in a coll object which is then played using the groove object. 

i am not sure (i am still learning) but i think that a sample starts to play but does not have time to finish before coll receives another number and another sample (or the same one) is played. 

i would like the full sample to play before it is changed so i think i need to use a gate or something to stop numbers coming in until the sample is finished.

in my patch i have numbers continually coming in from a sensor which are then matched to a sample in a coll object which is then played using the groove object. 
i am not sure (i am still learning) but i think that a sample starts to play but does not have time to finish before coll receives another number and another sample (or the same one) is played. 
i would like the full sample to play before it is changed so i think i need to use a gate or something to stop numbers coming in until the sample is finished.

confused about storing/playing samples with coll object