So wait, are you asking how to play the audio from the randomly chosen file? If so, you should take a look at MSP tutorial 16 which teaches you about playing audio files.

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placing a buffer under the prepend read object loads a file and double clicking it works but when connecting its grove, theres no sound put

I got it to work

hey man thank you so much for your time, still getting used to it again. it only plays the sound once though, ive added play/stop messages to the groove but no joy. Thanks again for your help!.

i worked out that the ezdac needs to be switched off and on again for it to work if you press stop

for groove~ you can send it a message "loop 1" to turn on looping.

thanks, i worked it out. Last question, say i wanted four of these, how do i change the foo message so my buffer/groove objects are independent of each other and still update their wave form displays? thanks again.

the way that buffer~ works is you give it a name as the first argument. So you can have 2, 5, 10000 (well maybe not that many) buffer objects each named: foo1, foo2, foo3...fooN. Then you have groove~ objects which you can either set the buffer it reads from via the set message, or you can put it in as the first argument.