In the previous profiling section, we observed a static usage of audio memory, which is very good. Yet, what if we wanted to deploy this same game to a mobile platform and needed to cut down on memory? Fortunately, there are a few tricks we can use in order to reduce the memory footprint of our audio clips in memory usage and on disk. We will review a few of those options and the trade-offs in the following exercise:
- Open up Unity and open the Assets/Audio/Ambient folder in the Project window. Select the lake-shore-waves2 audio clip. Then select the Inspector window and change the Load Type to Streaming as shown in the following screenshot:
Changing the Load Type on an audio clip resource
- Then, click ...
