thanks for the quick reply again martin,

it's a strange problem that i seem to be having.
because i definitely have all the midifiles in the same folder as the patch but

[midifile test.mid]
...or...
[read test.mid(---[midifile]
gives... 'error: midifile: unable to open test.mid'

but when i do
[bang]---[openpanel]---[read $1(---[midifile]
and point it to 'test.mid' it seems to work?

hmmmm...
unfortunately for what i want to do i need to be able to automate opening different midifiles.
i'm using your zip from http://puredata.info/Members/martinrp/midifile/midifile.zip/view


thanks again in advance!

----- Original Message ----
From: Martin Peach <martin.peach@sympatico.ca>
To: saintidle@yahoo.com; pd-list@iem.at
Sent: Tuesday, 12 February, 2008 5:13:00 PM
Subject: Re: [PD] Phasor Driven Midi File Playback?

saint wrote:
>
>hi martin,
>
>been trying your midifile object and it's working nicely.

great!

>
>is there a way to send it a [read test.mid{ message or a [read
>folder/test.mid{ message?
>
>i need to automate opening a bunch of files without using the 'openpanel'
>object.
>

Just like that.
Or send a message or symbol containing the path to the [read $1( message.
It's probably easier if all the files are in the same directory as the
patch.

Martin





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