How long should a sound loop be?

chaley

I'm hoping to use a 30 second loop, but I wasn't sure if that's too big. I guess I need to know what a decent file size is.

mynameisace

I've looped music longer than 30 seconds before and still had my game well under the 20MB 3G limit.

Ace

chaley

Nice... OK, that definitely gives me a good idea. Thanks!

The_Gamesalad_Guru

I use one minute loops and I just compress the file. Most people don't play a game with headphones so as to audio fidelity you don't need your files at a crazy sample rate like 44khz. An audio file is in direct relation to the sample rate.