Steam Music

[Demon_Skeith]

First revealed earlier in the year, Valve today released Steam Music Player for all users of its desktop client.

All you need to do is point the client towards your music collection and you're off. Turn it on and you'll get a little floating media player (which can be activated and controlled in-game), which is able to play albums, mixes and playlists.

It's not a huge deal for a lot of games, considering the original score is so important to their pace and tone, but for long-running games with lots of downtime (like Civilization) it's a god-send.

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nice feature. Though I wonder how they will handle copyrighted music.

 

[froggyboy604]

This does sound like a nice music program espiecally for the future Steam Machine which has very few or no alternative music players.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

hopefully the steam machine can support this.

 

[Nuke]

nice feature. Though I wonder how they will handle copyrighted music.

They'll probably trust that you aren't pirating the music on your hard drive, knowing Valve. They also plan to introduce support for services like Spotify, if I'm correct.

However, I'm too lazy to try Steam Music. They could already have that, for all I know.

 

[froggyboy604]

They'll probably trust that you aren't pirating the music on your hard drive, knowing Valve. They also plan to introduce support for services like Spotify, if I'm correct.

However, I'm too lazy to try Steam Music. They could already have that, for all I know.

I agree Steam would probably trust that music is not pirated, or does not care like Windows Media Player, iTunes, Quicktime, and Winamp which just plays MP3, and other types of music files, and does not check if it was downloaded for free from  a website like MediaFire and Dropbox, or bought from a legal MP3 store like Amazon, iTunes, etc.