NOW THIS IS COUNTRY.
Welcome to Raw Country!
Raw Country is a country music video channel available exclusively on the Roku network and compatible devices. We stream music videos from all genres of country, from up-and-coming, unsigned artists to many of your favorites, classic and contemporary, 24/7/365.
You can find Raw Country in the Roku Channel Store under Music.
Raw Country was launched in March 2014.
This website will be used to provide information, updates and support for the channel. Please check back periodically.
Where we get our video content
Raw Country gets its video in several different ways. First off, we welcome quality video submissions from country artists the world over. If you're a country music artist looking for "free" exposure, send us your video — if we add you to our playlist, you can be seen by more than 8,000,000 viewers worldwide (and growing!)
The rest of our videos come direct from the source with the appropriate permissions granted, or through various Internet sources via one of the Creative Commons licenses that allows us to use them.
We are always on he lookout for country music video that we can add to our playlist.
Watching Raw Country
Raw Country is currently presented in a "linear" format. Unlike other Roku channels that use a grid layout with menu selections to pick and choose, Raw Country automatically begins streaming videos as soon as you click through.
If you leave the channel and return later, it will automatically start where you left off — it doesn't "rewind" to the beginning.
Raw Country is great "background music" — our ever-growing playlist runs on a loop, as soon as it plays through (currently running about 5 hours) it will automatically start again from the first video, and loop infinitely.
Raw Country lets you use the buttons on your Roku remote to fast-forward to the end of a video so you can get to the next one, but it doesn't allow you to simply "skip" a video. We really want every video to have an opportunity to get played.
You can also "rewind" a video to see it again, so long as you do it before the next one begins.
If you click the "back" or "home" buttons on your Roku remote, that simply exits the channel, bringing you back to the channel menu.
Known bugs or glitches.
Raw Country is not without glitches. Occasionally when transitioning from one video to the next, the next one may already be in-progress. This typically happens when you exit the channel and immediately return.
Also, every once in a while a video may stop working -- we try our best to keep the system running at 100%. Also, sometimes when we add a new video it may not have encoded properly and it can cause the system to stop.
If you experience a break in the playlist -- whether its a video freezing, an error message or a black screen lasting more than 1 minute, simply exit the channel then re-enter it and it should be fine. If not you can email [email protected] to let them know there's an issue.