Did they remove the Music Player?

[Jej]

Because that's one of the few reasons I used the overlay for as some games throw a fit if one ALT-TABs out to change music tracks.

[Gunslinger ☢]

Yeah, its gone.

replaced with the Soundtrack player so you can only play music you bought from steam exclusively.

[Jej]

Nebo Strelok ☢ eredeti hozzászólása:

Yeah, its gone.

replaced with the Soundtrack player so you can only play music you bought from steam exclusively.

I have no idea why Valve went with such a moronic change. The player was the sole reason I used the overlay at all.

"You can play MP3's but only our MP3's"

[entite]

they removed the MUSIC PLAYER???
why????

how am i gonna listen to the wuppo ost on repeat for the whole day now? 🥺👉👈

[fink]

Pretty upsetting change tbh. Been like this since the beta.

I guess it was inevitable considering they weren't even bothering to fix the crash related to playing .ogg files.

Hope they bring it back. Anyone got any good alternatives?

[Pilgrim of Darkness 💜]

I'm guessing they're planning on selling music on Steam a couple of years from now, so they preemptively removed the option to play all non-Steam-bought music.

I'd recommend using steam's in-game browser to stream music. That way, you won't need to alt-tab out of the game to change a track.

[76561199521118219]

i think for me personally i never used music player because in-game overlay would cause crashes in games i played and lowered fps, i think if you need music and play any game on steam external player still better like there are low fps players like vlc and foobar that dont consuime resources, and games often crash if you use overlay on some older title for example, and in other games overlay causes significant fps hit or lag like tf2 for example i experienced this.
i think if overlay was really working well i would probably be more willing to use player, but for me personally a player requires to be ingame exclusiveley ie if you play a game entire day, not 1hour sessions as you would have to close player with it.
for me also i think stuff like big picture is kinda useless unless you use tv to play on gamepad, i think it should really be spinned down in steamos type of thing where external stuff like music player or external browser is optionally installed in case if it causes lags, because i think even steam chat for example creates lag if left open in large chat groups with pics and video posts.
i think any feature really should be able to be ininstalled if needed as many times when a program gets infected it keeps using external feature like that to sift through other player it can infect, same even goes for other stuff like community content, for example like i often not use steam account page or help page for months even thoguh there is ability to go there if it was a virus hijacking my pc in silent mode. you might think its useless but for me personally it would save headache doing it myself as i often get hacked and cleaning up all i can find is only way it gets less worse beside a complete wipe of system os.

[NakiBest]

fink eredeti hozzászólása:

Pretty upsetting change tbh. Been like this since the beta.

I guess it was inevitable considering they weren't even bothering to fix the crash related to playing .ogg files.

Hope they bring it back. Anyone got any good alternatives?

Not inside the game, but I would suggest WinAMP, AIMP.

If you are asking about one that works inside games, sorry, not sure.
(Never used or needed one.)

[American Dove Mitten]

It's not that I have a problem with only playing music from steam games ...

But why these innovators removed a freaking list feature in the actual player.

You can technically still open old one using a link, but it's not ideal.

Add a freaking list Valve.. not just in a soundtrack, player too... and not like a year from now

[American Dove Mitten]

Better yet make a Steam specific soundtrack player with superior features to something like Winamp, too much to ask? I think not

Maybe if the player was actually good people would use it, or even knew where to find it

[76561199521118219]

American Dove Mitten eredeti hozzászólása:

Better yet make a Steam specific soundtrack player with superior features to something like Winamp, too much to ask? I think not

Maybe if the player was actually good people would use it, or even knew where to find it

i think to be honest steam is a gaming platform, and a lot of stuff detracts from it being worked on and functioning prorerly, like for example big picture mode is probably used by 1 percent of steam users, same for steam deck, i mean its a nice feature but it probably has significant amount of people dedicated to working on it and when we start having steam issues like the back button not working this is probably due to all these systems not working together since code is shared across all these things, i think if steam was just a list of games and a store that would probably be enough, i mean steam community itself also is a lot of stuff that is unrelated to playing, like i mean steam profile, is it a museum or art gallery or some myspace clone, everyone has a profile page but how is it enhancing peoples playing games, it just attracts a lot of social interaction that often has nothing to do with games at all, and all of that has to be maintained on the daily basis same with the actual steam app working,

i mean i also want these things but not at the cost of the core app not working normally, if they add 10 music players and it works i got no problem with that, but realistically what happens they add 1 single app to steam and it breaks entire core functionality of it working and than people forget what was causing issues since there is so much going on in steam and now users complain that that app is gone, kinda double edged sword, adding functions i mean.

[Lystent]

Pilgrim of Darkness 💜 eredeti hozzászólása:

I'm guessing they're planning on selling music on Steam a couple of years from now, so they preemptively removed the option to play all non-Steam-bought music. ....

Now if only some of these game devs would actually release their steam game's complete OST on steam...

[Wolfpig]

Pilgrim of Darkness 💜 eredeti hozzászólása:

I'm guessing they're planning on selling music on Steam a couple of years from now, so they preemptively removed the option to play all non-Steam-bought music.

The better guess would be, they saw in their usage statistics of the steam client that only a small minority of users is using that thing and therefore dropped it.

[MrDammit]

Pilgrim of Darkness 💜 eredeti hozzászólása:

I'm guessing they're planning on selling music on Steam a couple of years from now, so they preemptively removed the option to play all non-Steam-bought music.

I'd recommend using steam's in-game browser to stream music. That way, you won't need to alt-tab out of the game to change a track.

I think Pilgrim of Darkness is right. I think Valve wants Steam to be an all around entertainment hub. Games, music, movies... If you didn't buy it on Steam, it won't play on Steam.

Games I start just to hear the music, Metal Hellsinger, F1 23, PGA Tour, DOOM Eternal and Riders Republic to name a few.

[WhatsintheBox]

I don't have any real issue with not being able to play non-steam bought music on their player(YET), but bro wtf. I can't change the song in game or anywhere except the library page? That's just stupid.

[Lystent]

MrDammit eredeti hozzászólása:

Pilgrim of Darkness 💜 eredeti hozzászólása:

I'm guessing they're planning on selling music on Steam a couple of years from now, so they preemptively removed the option to play all non-Steam-bought music.

I'd recommend using steam's in-game browser to stream music. That way, you won't need to alt-tab out of the game to change a track.

I think Pilgrim of Darkness is right. I think Valve wants Steam to be an all around entertainment hub. Games, music, movies... If you didn't buy it on Steam, it won't play on Steam.

Games I start just to hear the music, Metal Hellsinger, F1 23, PGA Tour, DOOM Eternal and Riders Republic to name a few.

My main issue is with the whole idea of the system is that it doesn't work when devs shove off steam when publishing their OST. Divinity Original Sin 2 has a tad expensive part of a soundtrack on steam, and mostly published outside of steam instead. Pulsar: Lost Colony just published outside of steam alltogether. Spotify looks like it is being more enticing to devs or something.