I just saw I was tagged here. I actually just got done figuring out how to include a full soundtrack which was almost 200MB originally. Basically my solution was to use ffmpeg to reduce the file size as much as possible without losing too much quality.
Here's a good reference document - https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/AAC
My best result was accomplished by converting to mono with a 24k bitrate using libfdk and the aac_he profile. Here's what I did:
ffmpeg -i input.ogg -c:a libfdk_aac -vn -ar 44100 -b:a 24k -ac 1 -profile:a aac_he -movflags +faststart output.m4a
Years ago I was attempting to build an XM module player. I never got it to work correctly but it does make noise. It would parse the file and generate a short wave file that I would play as an audio resource. At the end of processing the audio I don't know how much headroom would be available for gameplay though.
In the end my solution is similar to Romans_I_XVI. There is always hosting the audio elsewhere, but for a game I would rather have the audio available even if the internet is unavailable.
The manifest entry for game=1 was supposed to eliminate some audio issues like gaps in sequential playing of audio tracks. I don't know if it actually fixed anything. Any device after the Roku 3 has had a big gap between audio in a playlist so loops don't work well.
| game | integer | Available since Roku OS 9 All game channels must add the game manifest entry to their manifest file. This flag prevents the channel from having audio/sound effects delays in the game. | game=1 |
I have never noticed a sidebar when playing audio player or audio resource.
