Great! Here are those points:

• The recordings are anything from 5 seconds to 5 minutes.
• Bela is being used
• As much as needed?

The idea is I've built a microphone in a public place that acts as a recorder that automatically adds the recordings to a pool of .wavs that playback on 8-10 speakers.

I've got a patch that records audio whenever a threshold it met. it then plays back that audio randomly on several speakers across a venue.

I'm using writesf~ to record the files, as i need to read them randomly.

is there any issue using writefs~ for 500 audio files? should I use tabwrite~ to capture then save a file afters?

Is that possible?