Roku Developer Program

[EugeneZ]

This question is for people who develop games for ROKU.

When you play a game, typically you have some light motivating music playing in the background.

But ROKU does not support MIDI files.

It does not have a synthesizer, and can't make a sound of given frequency.

How do you deal with that? Do you just package mp3s with your channels (4MB is the maximum, right?)

You would need about 1MB of mp3 instead of 20K of MIDI.

And "Options sidebar" keeps popping onto the screen if you use mp3 playing facility (Audio or roAudioPlayer).

Is there something better?

Thanks!

[renojim]

This is a good question for @Romans_I_XVI .

You don't necessarily have to package the audio file with the app if you can host it somewhere and download it when you channel/app starts.  cachefs would be a good place for it.

Do you have game=1 in your manifest?

[EugeneZ]

I was not aware of game=1

Thanks!