[PD] dealing with large sound files

[Nicholas Ward]

Hi,
Im not sure whether PD is actually the write software for this but 
anyhow maybe you might have some suggestions,

I have 16 audio files that are 28 minutes long each. I need to keep 
them looping and in sync to a counter that is looping through the 
frames of a movie in GEM. I can use separate machines for the GEM and 
audio but they must stay in sync. I also dont reckon I'll be able to 
load 16 28min sound files into tables due to RAM constraints.
Does anyone have any suggestions. Is there a way to play the soundfiles 
from disk and drive the frame counter in sync.

IF you had any suggestions of ways to do this outside of PD that would 
be fine too but I'd still need some way to talk to my GEM patch.

Thanks
Nick