Hello all,

I'm trying to load audio files from a specific directory in arrays as soon as a patch opens. How do I do this?

Thanks in advance

The [soundfiler] object - right click, view help, use [loadbang] to send messages loading up the audio files. You must create an array or table for each audio file for this to work and I believe that soundfiler has a flag to -resize the array automatically. Ooh, and I just discovered that you can send a message to arrays to normalize the audio files which sounds just magical, though I wish that soundfiler did this (it can when writing the other direction, array to wav).

I've pondered shortcuts for loading all the files of one directory - the only thing I can think of is to rename the files in a sequential manner so that you don't have to write out every name to give to soundfiler. This is probably only worth it if you can make a script do it for you and if there are LOTS of audio files.

Does anyone have tips on loading entire directories into arrays at startup?

Thanks PonZo, that's helpful.
I'm having trouble with Pd recognizing file paths though. What would the message be if I wanted to read a file "sound.aiff" from the desktop on a mac?

/"hard drive name"/Users/"your user name"/Desktop/sound.aif

View the help file. Check the syntax on there - you need to specify the array that it's writing to, for example. Format should be automatically detected.

PonZo, you can use [folder_list] to dump out all the files in a directory.