Anyone think they should add a music player to steam? - Games

Been bugging me for days now, I love the new steam ingame UI and I really love the web browser and everything, I just would also love to have a music player, so I can pick a song i'm in the mood for rather than either Alt+Tab'ing or having a playlist on, maybe a Itunes kind of widget, this might already be available, but as far as I can see from searching google, it isn't. Anyone else agree on this?

You can use Subsonic from the web browser. That's what I've been doing. [url]http://subsonicproject.com/[/url]

I prefer just having a separate window open for music. If they started working on implementing a music device, I'm afraid they would get too caught up in trying to be the next iTunes rather than focusing on games, which they're great at.

[QUOTE=lil_n00blett;20751693]I prefer just having a separate window open for music. If they started working on implementing a music device, I'm afraid they would get too caught up in trying to be the next iTunes rather than focusing on games, which they're great at.[/QUOTE] I think the point is to load a playlist from your computer through Steam's in-game UI

Xfire does this. It's the only reason I even use it But it would be nice to see Steam have this as well, so I don't have to use both

I think theres somthing called Ajaxamp for winamp you can use from browser its nice

Awesome, yeah, it would be like itunes built in, would make everything easier and its nice to have everything all in one :)

Don't you have the keys to control your playlist on your keyboard? I always use those.

You know what I love about No Heroes TF2 servers? The fact that they have an integrated radio station player with tons of radios to choose from. Also no, I don't think they should add a music player to Steam. What's so hard about muting your game and making a playlist in your media player?

[QUOTE=PieClock;20759907]Don't you have the keys to control your playlist on your keyboard? I always use those.[/QUOTE] For some reason, mine only work when the window playing music is in focus. I don't get why, that completely negates the point of the buttons.

[QUOTE=Kagrenak;20761163]For some reason, mine only work when the window playing music is in focus. I don't get why, that completely negates the point of the buttons.[/QUOTE] If you're using iTunes there's a plugin for it.

No, use iTunes and [url]http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/code/ituneskeys/[/url]

Yeah I think they should. Also, if you use -noborder -window mode on source games, it makes alt-tabbing instant, so you can use media player much easier.

It needs a way of developing apps for it, it would nice to have msn intergration, a music player or control or even a little notepad app

Closest they have at the moment is a Steam skin for Winamp (That looks very nice)

They need a winamp interface for the ingame overlay

[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/CyborgKeyboard7.jpeg[/img] Sup.

I want iTunes library integration.

Just use web interface or global hotkeys. Jeez.

I'm pretty sure you can use Steam media player to listen music, or view videos. [url]http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Media_Player[/url]

[QUOTE=Hybrid 4F;20767450]I'm pretty sure you can use Steam media player to listen music, or view videos. [url]http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Media_Player[/url][/QUOTE] They should just integrate something similar to that into the games, maybe just like a button next to web browser and then just open up audio during your gaming session

no

I'd pay for an in game music player in the shift tab function!

Winamp + global hotkeys works well. Only a few games like The Saboteur and Metro 2033 for some reason disable the global hotkeys but alt tabbing with those is easy.

I remember Steam having an integrated music player you could use back in 2004-2005, before the whole community update thing.

[QUOTE=killz2much;20849778]I remember Steam having an integrated music player you could use back in 2004-2005, before the whole community update thing.[/QUOTE] Doesn't it still have it technically.

If you could have a spotify window in the steam overlay I would be happy forever.

Use foobar, you can have global hotkeys for controlling the music. You can use FLACs too.

Xfire has itunes integration. Too bad xfire doesn't work with most dx10 games.

You could always run it in windowed, with 50px less on the height scale for the bar at the bottom.