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== How Music Helps a Game ==
== Uploading your Music ==
Music in your game can help with several things...
On March 22nd 2022, all existing audio that were more than 6 seconds long — alongside any other audio uploaded past that date — were made private on ROBLOX. This, unfortunately, left players of old ROBLOX launchers and revivals with only bland songs and legacy sounds to use for their games. Fortunately, there are ways to bypass this and once again fill your games — both new and old — with wonderful music.
* Gives professional appearance (or rather, sound)
* Makes the game more fun <!-- Please. "Funner isn't a word -->
* Creates a mood


For these reasons, or more, you may want to use sounds.
== External Services ==
{{WIP}}


== Uploading your Music ==
== Local Assets ==  
The ability to upload [[Sound]] files is currently limited to administrators only. There is no official way to upload your sounds, and the unofficial way was removed in 2010. The reason for the lack of sound playing is the massive amount of files that ROBLOX would be forced to stream. Some songs were uploaded by the [[developers]] and will work, you can find these in official models, [[tools]] and [[gear]].
After long hours of looking through old ROBLOX games in studio, it would not take long to discover a link which includes the term <code>rbxasset://</code>. This phrase, '''rbxasset''', is in reference to the '''content''' folder which is in every old ROBLOX client folder. An example of this link used in action is with the default face, which is called '''face.png''' in the '''textures''' folder. The link would be formatted as <code>rbxasset://textures/face.png</code>.


== MIDI and RIDI ==
== MIDI and RIDI ==

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Specifically: There should be an article about music, but these Roblox.com links won't work anymore. Maybe this article could be replaced with a new guide about how to make use of the Novetus shareddata folder for custom music (and other asset) files?


Uploading your Music

On March 22nd 2022, all existing audio that were more than 6 seconds long — alongside any other audio uploaded past that date — were made private on ROBLOX. This, unfortunately, left players of old ROBLOX launchers and revivals with only bland songs and legacy sounds to use for their games. Fortunately, there are ways to bypass this and once again fill your games — both new and old — with wonderful music.

External Services

Work In Progress
This is currently being worked on! Check back later for more information... hopefully.


Local Assets

After long hours of looking through old ROBLOX games in studio, it would not take long to discover a link which includes the term rbxasset://. This phrase, rbxasset, is in reference to the content folder which is in every old ROBLOX client folder. An example of this link used in action is with the default face, which is called face.png in the textures folder. The link would be formatted as rbxasset://textures/face.png.

MIDI and RIDI

Some ROBLOX users have taken the initiative and created their own music playing scripts. Combined with custom programs that convert MIDI songs into ROBLOX MIDI songs that run with the script, songs can be played. One of the best collections so far can be found in this set by Aaaboy97. These use Blobbyblob's MIDI. There are 3 known scripts that will play custom music. All of the MIDI scripts on ROBLOX use the pitch property of sounds to create the correct sound. Many also contain a database of different sounds you can use, and the fact that some of the scripts load

MIDI, by Blobbyblob.

The MIDI made by Blobbyblob has several advantages. These include.

  • Having a composing tool
  • You do not need a reference table to use it, the keys are human readable.

RIDI, by Brandonhare

The RIDI made by Brandonhare also is nice. The code itself used to play the music is shorter, so once you memorize the reference keys, it's quite simple to write music.

Komposers Kit

The Komposers Kit made by Ozzypig is another nice MIDI alternative for ROBLOX.

ROBLOX uploaded songs

These songs were uploaded by ROBLOX. The quality is generally better then the ones you would find that were made by a MIDI. However, it doesn't have a graphical music composer, and it doesn't have a music collection.

Songs = {
	["Gothic"] = {
		Artist = "Zero Project",
		ItemId = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id = 27697743",
		DatabaseId = "http://c7bg.roblox.com/76d00f427b9ac4196f67a2b17891954a",
		Length = 346.464
	},
	["Hip Hop"] = {
		Artist = "Jeff Syndicate",
		ItemId = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id = 27697735",
		DatabaseId = "http://c3bg.roblox.com/630a7f54523b96b980ff1d8939a03482",
		Length = 228.672
	},
	["Flight of the Bumblebee"] = {
		Artist = "Daniel Bautista",
		ItemId = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id = 27697719",
		DatabaseId = "http://c7bg.roblox.com/72c546f1c54db95088a7c8812dacf7e2",
		Length = 108.016327
	},
	["Music for a Film"] = {
		Artist = "Daniel Bautista",
		ItemId = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id = 27697713",
		DatabaseId = "http://c4bg.roblox.com/16f7c76798017c91441fb21b5a30a943",
		Length = 226.008
	},
	["Intro"] = {
		Artist = "Daniel Bautista",
		ItemId = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id = 27697707",
		DatabaseId = "http://c6bg.roblox.com/d4c9789e1ad5f352360029bb1bfd14f7",
		Length = 156.312
	},
	["Better Off Alone (remix)"] = {
		Artist = "DJ Glejs",
		ItemId = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id = 27697392",
		DatabaseId = "http://c1bg.roblox.com/285e6ae5d39e3e9ce0ae2cfd6655967f",
		Length = 362.016
	},
	["Foggy Mountain Breakdown"] = {
		Artist = "Flatt & Scruggs",
		ItemId = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id = 27697298",
		DatabaseId = "http://c1bg.roblox.com/88189e83713ecb77929aa97d5ca10db9",
		Length = 163.728
	},
	["Awakening"] = {
		Artist = "Positively Dark",
		ItemId = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id = 27697277",
		DatabaseId = "http://c0bg.roblox.com/a6808f735e7da071156c8b46fe3f62ad",
		Length = 268.056
	},
	["Entertainer Rag"] = {
		Artist = "Scott Joplin",
		ItemId = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id = 27697267",
		DatabaseId = "http://c0bg.roblox.com/12abdbba12192560ca9dcf1554f61da3",
		Length = 265.68
	},
	["Resist (remix)"] = {
		Artist = "Mubarek",
		ItemId = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id = 27697234",
		DatabaseId = "http://c6bg.roblox.com/95bed730f2c92540c86adf1bbdd0a0a8",
		Length = 446.184
	}
}