Music Player is Rip

[Alamo Turtle]

Unsurprisingly, instead of listening to user feedback and not only making custom music files worthless and only being able to use the music player available in the overlay only use soundtracks of games you bought, they just removed the music player entirely and now soundtracks are from the steam web client. No overlay at all. Thank you Steam.

[Sub-Zero]

Originally posted by dazza0511:

I'm surprised people used this when things like youtube and spotify exist.

Winamp here.

Also, steam Music Player to play your own music was also handy. Now that it's completly removed and only uses what soundtrack you bought is mandatory, perhaps I'll have to use good old winamp with my music collection to listen.

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

I brought several soundtrack on steam but I usually just use the default music player with windows 10 to listen to my steam soundtracks.

I also brought them so I can easily just transfer the files to my phone and mp3 player and listen to some music even when the internet or the eletricity are down. lol

[AustrAlien2010]

It might be too difficult to create a local offline website with an embedded music player on the website that can be used to play local music files. But you have to do it yourself.

[User]

funny how i was about to exactly type about this here lol

[Wolfpig]

It may be hard to belive, but probably a lot less people used the player (as there are way better standalone ones out there) and so that's why valve decided to scrap it.

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

Originally posted by dazza0511:

Originally posted by MIGUEL:

I know this may be hard to believe, but not all music is on youtube and spotify.

Not hard to believe at all even if you are being sarcastic, people can use whatever they want to listen to music i'm not hating.

for me subscribing to spotify end up more costly then buying the music albums I want.

in average per year I'd spent about 40-50 canadian dollars on music and get exactly the music I like the most , spotify is around 10$ dollars a month meaning over a hundred dollars a year so getting premium on these just for the music is more expensive for me then just buying the music I want.

[Devil`s Rejected]

Originally posted by dazza0511:

I'm surprised people used this when things like youtube and spotify exist.

The hassle to go on those when a simple SHIFT + TAB and I could select my own playlists while gaming:

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By: Devil`s Rejected

Could not play one single game without it! \m/M\m/

[your hot goth aunt]

Originally posted by AustrAlien2010:

It might be too difficult to create a local offline website with an embedded music player on the website that can be used to play local music files. But you have to do it yourself.

Use foobar2000 with foo_httpcontrol if you insist on a webpage. I hate using webpages for literally everything, but if you're gonna buy into the dumbest design idea of all time, here's how you get a proper music player.

[Devil`s Rejected]

Any way, imma try this:
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/6516193260166142363/

[Confused Undead]

Originally posted by Wolfpig:

It may be hard to belive, but probably a lot less people used the player (as there are way better standalone ones out there) and so that's why valve decided to scrap it.

Could you list some? It would be appreciated.

[lailaamell]

New ui confusing i want the old overlay back it was easier to use new overlay honestly feel like why bother its 90% empty screen rest is functions i cant really see any use for while gaming who changes controllers layout while playing when you usually will be forced to restart anyway kinda sad they dropped something i used on overlay the main thing i used it for

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It's still there but the downside is just like chat on the steam mobile app you have to download another app for the music player.

just kidding

[AustrAlien2010]

Originally posted by Devil`s Rejected:

Any way, imma try this:
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/6516193260166142363/

Are you sure you want to do that because the music player is missing? I am almost certain that you can add a music player as an overlay to most viewports, in the same way as you can add a frames per second counter, or some hardware statistic such as GPU temperature. There may also be (free) utilities for that, if you search on the internet or the store a bit. If Steam cannot add this, then I expect there are all sorts of other solutions for overlays that you can have regardless, which may also work in tandem with the Steam overlay.

For your information:
Steam: Settings: Interface: In-Game: Toolbar preferences.
You can enable a music player from there.

[Jasung]

Ah, that sucks. Not all the soundtracks are listed as their own thing on Steam in the first place. In addition, now we're not able to load up individual tracks and create our own playlists using the new, native player. I hope Steam will return more functionality for it allowing more agency for us end-users.

[Nathan]

Originally posted by sebashooter:

I found this
properties in your steam shortcut, and add -vgui where it says target and restart steam

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198097960645/images/

CUSTOM MUSIC WORKS!
This is without downgrading Steam, it technically being the current version, just using the old UI, and you can still set custom music folder paths and it plays no problem, tested with my custom mp3s just now, no issues, it's the exact same old UI, but just still in the recent Steam build.

VALVE HAS LITERALLY NO EXCUSE NOT TO BRING IT BACK AND FIX THEIR INFERIOR NEW UI.