Hey this is my first post, glad to be here.

I'm trying to build an abstraction that infinitely loops a file and returns back that audio into a mixer, but I'm having a hell of a time figuring it out.

Essentially the inlet should be a symbolic filename, and it should output the readsf~ value
inlet - makefilename %s - open $1, 1 - readsf~ - outlet~

My goal in the main file is to do:
symbol 01.wav - looper~ - mixer~ - dac~
symbol 02.wav - looper~ - mixer~ /

The problem in the abstraction is how to restart it automatically. When I bang from readsf~ into open - the variable is now wrong. Not sure the best way to store this.

Not sure where to start, really appreciate any help

@cYberSport91 Try putting a [symbol] between [makefilename] and the open message, and bang [symbol] instead of the open message.

@jameslo It works! I realize I don't fully understand the symbol object, I have some reading to do, thank you.

It was failing to automatically start - this made it work, is this the right approach? Attaching open $1 - start - readsf~

@cYberSport91 I was thinking of this:

Your way is fine too, but I think you should use a [trigger b f] to enforce that the open message is sent before the start message. That's done automatically in the first way you did it, with the comma in [open $1, 1(

Edit: I meant [trigger b s]

That worked perfectly! Thanks, that explained a whole lot