Steam Music announced, beta starting soon
Steam will be getting a new Music feature soon, in beta testing on both the Big Picture and SteamOS interfaces.
Steam Machines are taking a big step towards turning the popular gaming platform into an all-in-one set-top box, and Valve has announced a new beta feature that will further those goals. Steam Music will be hitting both Big Picture and SteamOS interfaces as a beta, letting you listen to your music collection while playing games.
An official announcement made on the Steam Music group outlines the features. With Steam Music, you can listen to music directly through the interface, and your Steam Library will include Album and Artist views. You can manage your play queue, access the music player through your guide, and manage your playlist through the Steam overlay while in a game.
The beta is only planned for SteamOS and Big Picture at first, but Valve promises that a desktop version will be coming soon as well. If you're interested in participating in the beta, join the Steam Music community to signal your interest.
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Steam will be getting a new Music feature soon, in beta testing on both the Big Picture and SteamOS interfaces.-
Cool, now that winamp is dead we could use a new music player that is in active development.
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lol
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Haha, I know, I still use it. But there won't be any integration for any future music services that may arise. This steam service could potentially link up with soundcloud and stuff like that.
That said, given the staying power we've seen for flac and mp3, winamp will be fine for playing most files for a decade or five.-
It can live forever with plugins. New format? New input plugin! There are plenty of third party plugins like that already
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Errr.. http://winamp.com/
The Llama is alive and well.-
!!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!
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Musicbee is all you will ever need, IMO. Http://www.getmusicbee.com
AutoDJ works great, has support for every major format, is actively in development and not owned by AOL ;)
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I wonder what percentage of Valve is still working on games
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Does this support FLAC or OGG?
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Great news!
First, we had a small footprint client that just played game.
Then, we got more videos in game pages that start automatically with the volume at max, guides, the workshop, Steam Greenlight, Softwares, Collection cards, the market place, comments we don't wanna see, etc. And now at long last we also have music to cover the sound of the game!
I'm very happy to see my Steam client will top 5 GIG of RAM someday, because it can...-
I will be truly upset when steam is taking up 5 of my 128gb of ram in 5 years.
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bro stop gaming on a macbook
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I loved the in-game mp3 player it used to have during the TFC days
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The selling point will be the in-game integration I expect. First just as an overlay ui through the Steam client and then eventually allows you to replace in-game music like a console does. With Steamworks tied into the game, and this extension, it's completely possible at that point.
If they have the specific quest of the anti-console, then this make sense. Though, eventually they'll want to partner with some kind of media providing service too, and just the subscription guys.
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Its becoming too power, we have to destroy it before it grows stronger and destroys all of mankind.
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Strike at the Gaben.
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Coolio.
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I'm always muting game music when the woman and I are playing MP and putting on a play list or something else. During games where I need the sound I keep it. But having an in client music option is pretty decent. MS and Sony do this too!
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This is a music player that plays music from your hard drive, and is accessible from the Steam overlay. It is not a music purchasing or subscription service.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steammusic#announcements/detail/1498873168009439000 -
its basically like the player on the 360 where you can play music while you game. Simple and an appreciated addition
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Yep, Steam definitely needed a streaming music service. Yep.
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I don't think it is offering streaming music.
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