I have the following patch that can play just fine one audio file based on button press

I will have an encoder rotary that will print numbers between 1 to 9 and I would like to play tracks accordingly
what is the best method of playing multiple files without the need to multiple everything?

Thanks

@KMETE What is the state of the play/pause toggle when the array fills.....?
And what does the [all( message do?
And is the [all( message sent before or after the 1 to [s starting]?
David.

@whale-av When the Array fills the state of the pause play button is 1 (but no sound coming out)

the [all( message is for start playing the track for the first time or after finishing, otherwise it won't play.

my full patch
Main2.pd

@KMETE So [vline~] receives "1 250"
Then [sf-play2~] receives "resume"
Then [sf-play2~] receives "all"

It must get the track name somehow from [stereofile myplayer] and I don't have that....... but probably it has not yet received the filename.
You have put 250 msec delays everywhere..... so hard to tell which messages will get there first.

So I think your patch should look like this at the bottom left......

......... with the [delay 250] removed and the order confirmed with the [t b b f] the trackname should get where it needs to go before the start is sent........ unless there are more delays in [stereofile myplayer].
David.

@whale-av
Indeed now the track will play on the first push. The problem now is that when scrolling between track you hearing the previous track before the track you want is playing.. because the moment a number is send to Coll it will pass the track name to [stereofile] and will play it immediately before the previous track go back to zero .

@KMETE Ok, I have to cook dinner........ then I will get back to you.

@whale-av Enjoy dinner.
I have added the marked object and it solved it

@KMETE Well done! It must have been the order of connections from the old [t b f]...... little things.....
David.

Another thing I'm trying to do:
I setup rotary encoder and a button on the arduino and I'm using the rotary encoder to change the track which work just fine. I would like that the button will act as a pause play button.

the data I'm when pressing the button is transient between 1 >> 0 so I need to make toggling between two state of constant 1 and constant o (meaning 1 press will output 1 and another press will output 0)

I try to use [cycle 2] to toggling between states but it did not worked well. Any recommendations?

@KMETE Yes.......
Send the button data into [sel 1]
Connect a bang to its left outlet.
It will only bang when the button is pressed (1)........ not when it is released (0)
Feed the bang into a [toggle] that will then output 1 or 0 for each bang it receives..

You can set the toggle to always be on or off as the patch opens using the "init" button in its properties window.....

If that is also unreliable then it will be because of switch bounce.
You can debounce using a [delay] to stop data within a time window.
There are a number of ways to do that....... https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/12092/debouncing-was-measure-time-between-two-bangs-events
David.