Steam Music.. new feature

i guess valve haven't heard of mp3s...

Don't see any point in this unless they provide the music as well. Would be cool to be able to buy music on steam otherwise I do not see much difference between using this or external program.

Why wouldn't you just program hotkeys in your computer to pause/change tracks then run something really low memory like foobar2000 in the background?

What will they think of next, Steam Cooking Show?

Cool future...Thats whot steam was missing all the time.

For the moment it feels completely redundant. SteamOS has a lot of things to fix before turning its attention to muscic playback. It has to be a solid gaming platform first and it still isn't.

If I don't play on SteamOS or Big Picture, will I still be able to use it?
Sorry if it's a stupid question :P

I'll let you know when the first betas are sent and if it's worth it and good or not. :)

Seems cool. For those of you wondering why is this a thing - it's primarily made for Steam OS.

I just hope its going to be some external integration like with last.fm or pandora. I dont care what they do with community profiles as long its not a burden on client, wouldnt want to end up up with some RAM eating bloatware

I like the idea of a music player, but I seriously hope they don't start selling music too.

Listening to non VG music while playing games? That's utterly pointless. Unless you're playing MP games.

We'll i'm in beta, gonna test it out.

Edit: To start music, you can find it in library in BP mode.
Quality is great. It's fast. UI is simple and easy.
It seems really good. Can't wait for dekstop interface.

Edit 2:
Guys, go http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steammusic/discussions and recommend them which features you want, most of you wanted some streaming/radio stuff, they said they're looking into it, it's just that they don't know which services to use. So yeah, post it there. :D

There is a pretty simple way to get in beta right now without being invited at all. Tested and works

They better have lots of game soundtracks.

Thank You.Thank You.

this is exactly what I hate. I have an external music app for this exact purpose. why must i now be forced to download a bloated client that also has that capability? Same for steam chat and many other pointless features

• What's the advantage over using software like VLC or similar in the background?
• It requires SteamOS? Wha ...
• It requires Big Picture Mode too?

Does need exist?

Sooo...who got their invitation?

While it is an interesting addition to Steam, there isn't much use for me honestly. I don't play my own music when playing most games because I like doing things the original way (listening to the game's own music and sounds as it was designed to be), with the exception of Dota 2, because I already played it too many times that I experienced that "original way" already.
However, Dota 2 has a "borderless windowed mode" which I use, and I easily tab to desktop within 0.1 secs, faster than shift+tab steam overlay which takes 0.3 secs.

i just received an invitation YAY!!