Martin

I am trying to make a patch that opens a random audio file (.aif) from a specified folder, This is what I've got bellow. I don't understand what the next stage is to make this work

            "box" :             {

                "maxclass" : "newobj",

                "text" : "sprintf open %ld.aif",

                "fontsize" : 12.0,

                "numinlets" : 1,

                "numoutlets" : 1,

                "patching_rect" : [ 655.0, 689.0, 113.0, 20.0 ],

                "outlettype" : [ "" ],

                "id" : "obj-22",

                "fontname" : "Arial"

                "maxclass" : "toggle",

                "patching_rect" : [ 700.0, 654.0, 20.0, 20.0 ],

                "outlettype" : [ "int" ],

                "id" : "obj-21"

                "text" : "delay 100",

                "numinlets" : 2,

                "patching_rect" : [ 700.0, 629.0, 63.0, 20.0 ],

                "outlettype" : [ "bang" ],

                "id" : "obj-6",

                "text" : "random",

                "patching_rect" : [ 655.0, 592.0, 51.0, 20.0 ],

                "id" : "obj-19",

                "text" : "sfplay~",

                "numoutlets" : 2,

                "patching_rect" : [ 655.0, 725.0, 49.0, 20.0 ],

                "outlettype" : [ "signal", "bang" ],

                "id" : "obj-23",

                "fontname" : "Arial",

                "save" : [ "#N", "sfplay~", "", 1, 120960, 0, "", ";" ]

            "patchline" :             {

                "source" : [ "obj-6", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-21", 0 ],

                "hidden" : 0,

                "midpoints" : [ ]

                "source" : [ "obj-19", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-22", 0 ],

                "source" : [ "obj-21", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-23", 0 ],

                "midpoints" : [ 709.5, 681.0, 640.0, 681.0, 640.0, 720.0, 664.5, 720.0 ]

                "source" : [ "obj-22", 0 ],

{
	"boxes" : [ 		{
			"box" : 			{
				"maxclass" : "newobj",
				"text" : "sprintf open %ld.aif",
				"fontsize" : 12.0,
				"numinlets" : 1,
				"numoutlets" : 1,
				"patching_rect" : [ 655.0, 689.0, 113.0, 20.0 ],
				"outlettype" : [ "" ],
				"id" : "obj-22",
				"fontname" : "Arial"
			}

		}
, 		{
			"box" : 			{
				"maxclass" : "toggle",
				"numinlets" : 1,
				"numoutlets" : 1,
				"patching_rect" : [ 700.0, 654.0, 20.0, 20.0 ],
				"outlettype" : [ "int" ],
				"id" : "obj-21"
			}

		}
, 		{
			"box" : 			{
				"maxclass" : "newobj",
				"text" : "delay 100",
				"fontsize" : 12.0,
				"numinlets" : 2,
				"numoutlets" : 1,
				"patching_rect" : [ 700.0, 629.0, 63.0, 20.0 ],
				"outlettype" : [ "bang" ],
				"id" : "obj-6",
				"fontname" : "Arial"
			}

		}
, 		{
			"box" : 			{
				"maxclass" : "newobj",
				"text" : "random",
				"fontsize" : 12.0,
				"numinlets" : 2,
				"numoutlets" : 1,
				"patching_rect" : [ 655.0, 592.0, 51.0, 20.0 ],
				"outlettype" : [ "int" ],
				"id" : "obj-19",
				"fontname" : "Arial"
			}

		}
, 		{
			"box" : 			{
				"maxclass" : "newobj",
				"text" : "sfplay~",
				"fontsize" : 12.0,
				"numinlets" : 2,
				"numoutlets" : 2,
				"patching_rect" : [ 655.0, 725.0, 49.0, 20.0 ],
				"outlettype" : [ "signal", "bang" ],
				"id" : "obj-23",
				"fontname" : "Arial",
				"save" : [ "#N", "sfplay~", "", 1, 120960, 0, "", ";" ]
			}

		}
 ],
	"lines" : [ 		{
			"patchline" : 			{
				"source" : [ "obj-6", 0 ],
				"destination" : [ "obj-21", 0 ],
				"hidden" : 0,
				"midpoints" : [  ]
			}

		}
, 		{
			"patchline" : 			{
				"source" : [ "obj-19", 0 ],
				"destination" : [ "obj-22", 0 ],
				"hidden" : 0,
				"midpoints" : [  ]
			}

		}
, 		{
			"patchline" : 			{
				"source" : [ "obj-21", 0 ],
				"destination" : [ "obj-23", 0 ],
				"hidden" : 0,
				"midpoints" : [ 709.5, 681.0, 640.0, 681.0, 640.0, 720.0, 664.5, 720.0 ]
			}

		}
, 		{
			"patchline" : 			{
				"source" : [ "obj-22", 0 ],
				"destination" : [ "obj-23", 0 ],
				"hidden" : 0,
				"midpoints" : [  ]
			}

play-random-audio-file-from-specific-folder

You could use [dropfile] into [umenu], and randomly trigger files that way:

change number 7 for number of files to play

@balam, thanks for that patch :) works great

Play random audio file from specific folder