React Native: How to play local .midi files?

Question

I have a React Native application in which I am trying to play different sounds with different extesions like .mp3, .wav, .midi. My issue is that I can't access the midi file that is stored locally in assets folder.

I tried by importing directly like

import midiFile from './assets/1.midi';

or through a index.js file in assets folder:

import midiFile from './1.mid';

const Assets = {
  midiFile,
};

export default Assets;

And also tried to open with react-native-fs like const midiFile = await RNFS.readFile('../assets/1.midi'); but with every method I will get that the 1.midi file does not exist and I double, triple check everytime that the path is correct (created a totally new project with just App.tsx and assets folder)

How can I use my local .midi file? Is there any change needed in metro.config.js or other file?

My scope is to play the sound through the react-native-sound which works with .mp3 files but I also need to make it work with .midi files.

Thank you