Download OSTs to My Music

[yann]

I want to download only sound trucks to another folder (ex. "my music").
Now, I download them to the steam library and move it my music folder.
Sound trucks is in "my music" and they're not in the steam library folder.
So, Steam cliant says that "You don't install this DLC".
Fortunately, steam cliant does'nt try to download it again.
But I want to understand him "I HAVE THIS DLC", and I want to download OSTs to my music folder directry.
Does anyone know a good solution?

I'm sorry for my poor english. Japanese (my native) is bellow.


サウンドトラックだけをsteamライブラリ以外のフォルダ(マイミュージックなど)にダウンロードしたいと考えています。
今はライブラリにダウンロードしてから移動しているので、サウンドトラックはマイミュージックにあり、ライブラリには入っていません。
そのため、steamには「未インストール」と表示されます。
この状態でもsteamが再ダウンロードをしようとしないのは良いのですが、サウンドトラックが「未インストール」と表示されるのも気になるし、また、できれば直接マイミュージックにダウンロードしたいとも思います。
誰か良い解決方法を教えていただけませんか？

[Forcen]

This can't be done yet sadly.
Steam wasn't designed to download music, it was designed to download games and DLC to the games. They that system for DLC, DLC has to be in the same folder as the game.
Selling music as DLC became a thing later on so it's not that convenient.
They might redesign how DLC works later on, who knows but until then you have to move the music yourself and then uninstall the game or the DLC.

[yann]

Thank you for your helpful and kind answer.

I understand that, so I try to ignore the message "you don't download the DLC".
And I will download some of the games in my laptop PC in my desktop PC for downloading the soundtrucks.
But... Artbooks, Soundtrucks, and so on... I think they're good contents, so I wish steam will redesign to selling the contents.

OK, thank you again for your help.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Steam treats them as DLC, which means that they (1) download to the game folder, and (2) can't even be bought or downloaded without buying/downloading the original game, which doesn't make sense.

For now, encourage musicians to release their work on bandcamp instead.

[yann]

Thank you for your help.
I have visited the website, and found some soundtrucks I have had.
It looks like a good web survice. I will serch soundtrucks by bandcamp first from now.
Really thank you again.

[The_Driver]

Just a few days ago, I tested if the old download via console and download_depot still works, and it let me download the portal 2 soundtrack that way... sure you don't select a download location, but you don't need to download the entire game to download the soundtrack that way, if the depots of the game are setup user-friendly.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by The_Driver:

Just a few days ago, I tested if the old download via console and download_depot still works, and it let me download the portal 2 soundtrack that way... sure you don't select a download location, but you don't need to download the entire game to download the soundtrack that way, if the depots of the game are setup user-friendly.

How do you do this?

[The_Driver]

You open the console
steam://nav/console
then initiate the
download_depot
command, it'll tell you the syntax if you don't add the appid and depotid (use the store or steamdb to get those 2 numbers)
When entered and working, you won't see a progress, but you'll be granted with the directory path being shown when done downloading.

[yann]

Thank you.
Now, I open the console.
I will try to download a soundtruck this way.
But... I apologize for you that... It's dinner time for me.
If I will finish the test, I post the result.

[yann]

GREAT! I've succeeded to download the Transistor Soundtrack and The Art of Shadow Tactcs.
I carelessly deleted both of them when I uninstalled the game.
It's good solution. A half of (and very important) probrem has been solved.
I don't have to download the basegame to my desktop computer only for download the OST and so on.

Thank you very much.

[yann]

and...I found that
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/458605613409029622/

If I had known that SOUND TR U CK IS A CAR, I should have found the topic before posting...

[The_Driver]

Originally posted by TACK:

If I had known that SOUND TR U CK IS A CAR, I should have found the topic before posting...

Not as bad as having people talking about their game "crushing" on them. ;D