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Hello Everyone
I have a set 8 sets of 28 audio files in my library. I need to present 16 of these to my respondents who will then answer the same 2 questions bases on each file they listen to. I'd like to randomize the files respondents listen to and not have to create a new question for each time respondents listen to audio. I've set up nested randomized blocks to randomize the audio as you can see from the screenshot, but I'm struggling with

  1. Getting the audiophiles to show up and play in the actual question.

  2. Getting the question to repeat 16 times with random audio files embedded

Below is the code I am using to embed the sound file and a screenshot of what the randomization looks like on survey flow. Notice I tried to use piped text to insert the source URL (${e://Field/Sound%20File%201}). How can I do this?

Since your questions are the same for each audio, I would recommend simplifying the survey a bit by using Loop and Merge instead of a randomizer.
Create a question with the audio file:

And add the other questions like you would, as if it was just one block.
Add the links to the audio files as the L&M fields and select randomize, display only x out of total.

Thank you, Ahmed,
There are specific conditions corresponding to each audio file. How do I code the questions so I can see the conditions in my data during analysis? Also, how would I make sure audio files from each type of condition show up evenly to respondents?

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