Way to speed up the loading of game music?

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To stream music, all you usually need is a pointer and the length of the data, so I would imagine streaming from an IncBin'ed song would work fine. You might also try loading it directly into a bank and streaming it from there. The initial loading period should be less as you are not decompressing it as you load it, as you are when loading it as a sound.