[QUOTE]The Steam Music Beta is coming soon to Big Picture and SteamOS interfaces, with desktop features soon to follow. To express interest in beta participation, join the Steam Music community group. Group members will be invited in waves, until the feature is released to everyone. [/QUOTE]
[url]http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steammusic[/url]
Please allow it to come to Canada, Valve. That would make me the happiest little girl ever.
Should've named it Calliope (a steam-powered organ)
Back in 2004 I would have never ever imaged Steam would have ever risen to what it is today. I still remember the classic GUI & message sound.
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[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;43774514]Please allow it to come to Canada, Valve. That would make me the happiest little girl ever.[/QUOTE]
It isn't music streaming, it is a way to play your music from SteamOS/Big Picture/in-game
It is a convenience thing really
[QUOTE]Listen to your music collection while you play games[/QUOTE]
haven't I been able to do that since the dawn of computing
[QUOTE=Rika-chan;43774574]It isn't music streaming, it is a way to play your music from SteamOS/Big Picture/in-game
It is a convenience thing really[/QUOTE]
The features aren't even published yet, but if that's true I hope they eventually improve on it and make it music streaming. Canada doesn't have Pandora or anything like that.
[QUOTE=Papytendo;43774581]haven't I been able to do that since the dawn of computing[/QUOTE]
It's probably a feature for SteamOS rather than the steam client, it'll probably be included in the client for the sake of keeping everything the same.
I don't know why I would ever want to use this over foobar or any other music program but I'm still a bit curious.
Actually one thing that would make this interesting is if it showed what I listen to on my profile, like last.fm does.
[QUOTE=Kljunas;43774694]I don't know why I would ever want to use this over foobar or any other music program but I'm still a bit curious.
Actually one thing that would make this interesting is if it showed what I listen to on my profile, like last.fm does.[/QUOTE]
Also shift-tab to edit your playlists instead of alt-tab, which makes some games screw up.
So how would you know exactly when you are picked to enter the beta?
I'm guessing it would be inventory items again.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;43774594]The features aren't even published yet, but if that's true I hope they eventually improve on it and make it music streaming. Canada doesn't have Pandora or anything like that.[/QUOTE]
It's currently local file streaming only, with Spotify support later on. At this point it doesn't look like Valve will do any streaming themselves.
[editline]3rd February 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=bl8demast3r;43774796]So how would you know exactly when you are picked to enter the beta?
I'm guessing it would be inventory items again.[/QUOTE]
E-mail.
I'll stick to Foobar for now, but this looks cool.
[QUOTE=Papytendo;43774581]haven't I been able to do that since the dawn of computing[/QUOTE]
Integration into the steam overlay.
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;43774631]It's probably a feature for SteamOS rather than the steam client, it'll probably be included in the client for the sake of keeping everything the same.[/QUOTE][QUOTE=FalconKrunch;43774921]Integration into the steam overlay.[/QUOTE]
These are obvious givens but, they could at least make it a little more compelling than just 'play music while you play your games'. At the very least they could have waited until a later time when they have more features to show.
This is literally the most barebones announcement I've ever seen.
[QUOTE=Papytendo;43774958]These are obvious givens but, they could at least make it a little more compelling than just 'play music while you play your games'. At the very least they could have waited until a later time when they have more features to show.
This is literally the most barebones announcement I've ever seen.[/QUOTE]
Local music playing is enough for me, the upcoming Spotify support is a plus.
I'm excited for this; makes it so I can manage volume levels easier when playing games and not crash when I alt-tab out.
I'm still waiting for the Spotify integration, since I'm actually using it everyday.
[quote]Once in-game, the music player follows you via the Steam overlay, where you can manage your current playlist, browse your collection and listen to whatever suits your mood.[/quote]
It would be interesting if they made this integrated into Steamworks somehow, and allowed you to set up playlists for certain moods which games could utilize instead of the regular in-game music.
Imagine a big fight in a game for the game to blend the music into one of your favorite fuck shit up tracks.
I used to use the 'mp3" command a bit back in the days of the old Steam.
This could be cool!
Pretty excited for this, pretty much 0% chance this is going to happen, but Grooveshark integration would be[URL="facepunch.com"] fucking incredible.[/URL]
Spotify and Last.fm I bet. Hell I bet in a month we will have the Steam TV and Movies beta with Netflix and so.
guess its an easier function to use when I play dota or tf2.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/YWiHU.jpg[/IMG]
Not playing music until their shitty as fuck client gets an overhault
[url]http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steammusic#announcements/detail/1498873168009439000[/url]
If I'm understanding this right, the steam client will download music metadata.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;43775700]Not playing music until their shitty as fuck client gets an overhault[/QUOTE]
What do you think is wrong with it?
if it gets lastfm scrobbling integration that'd be awesome and id use it for shizzy
[QUOTE=drake90001;43776067]What do you think is wrong with it?[/QUOTE]
its using bottleneck code from 2000
if they remade it with their current coders it would probably perform a million times better and not take up as much memory as it does now
but really this isnt exactly the place to talk about how slow steam is, idk why that guy brought it up
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