soundtrack on steam profile

[1zpaulo_]

would be nice to give an use to the soundtrack of the games that we own.

->To chose a song from the albums that we have on steam to play when someone access our profile, this would certain give more value to it and sell more too. nobody enter steam to open the music menu and listen the soundtrack of the games

[Cathulhu]

Would be a legal nightmare. The license you have does not cover streaming it.

There is a reason why such features died over a decade on all social media platforms.

[AustrAlien2010]

It would be a way to annoy the majority of people, because most people do not share the same taste in music.
If that's what you're aiming for, its a good idea. But its not that difficult for people to just mute music from a website. It won't annoy them permanently.

[1zpaulo_]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Would be a legal nightmare. The license you have does not cover streaming it.

There is a reason why such features died over a decade on all social media platforms.

we see instagram doing it, not on auto play. I mean it's posible, the licenses are definitely the problem.
The money that steam can make adding another way to custom your profile could make up the throble of setting it up

[wuddih]

the music you own on Steam is for your "personal use".
blasting those on your profile for someone else is not included in "personal use".

[1zpaulo_]

Originally posted by wuddih:

the music you own on Steam is for your "personal use".
blasting those on your profile for someone else is not included in "personal use".

if not from the soundtrack we own, could be from the points shop

[Gwarsbane]

Oh heck no, not just because of the legal issues and costs but also because of the HUGE annoyance issue. I'm constantly already playing something on my system when I have to go to a profile. I don't want what you consider music blasting over top of the music/video that I'm already listening to.

If Valve were ever dumb enough to do this, it MUST have an on/of switch and it MUST be off by default. Not just on our end but on the persons profile end too.

Also if you turn it off so you don't hear other peoples profiles it should also mean it doesn't play on your profile either. If you can't take being annoyed by it, then you shouldn't be able to annoy others with it.

Also there should be a lag time when turning it on and of. Turn it on so that you can listen to other peoples profiles, happens instantly, but the music on your profile won't start playing for a month. Don't want to hear peoples profile music, well the music on your profile goes off right away, but you hearing music from others profiles continues for a month.

The reason for this lag time is to stop people just turning stuff on and off to annoy people.

Music to put in the points shop would cost Valve money, they don't get money from anything in the points shop so no reason to put it in the points shop.

Also do you know what it costs to legally broadcast music? Hundreds if not thousands of dollars per month, per song via licensing agreements between companies.

Do you think Valve is going to pay that? No. Are you going to pay that? Somehow I doubt it.

[Cathulhu]

Originally posted by Pauladino:

Originally posted by wuddih:

the music you own on Steam is for your "personal use".
blasting those on your profile for someone else is not included in "personal use".

if not from the soundtrack we own, could be from the points shop

Would still be a legal nightmare and rather pricey for Valve to get everyone in agreement. Want to listen to music? Get Spotify.

[rawWwRrr]

Legalese aside... no. Myspace had its day. We don't need it to return.

[metamec]

As long as it doesn't autoplay, I don't care.

[Pscht]

It wouldn't be much but you basically propose stealing other people's bandwidth. I do not want stuff forced onto me that slows my downloads, no matter by how little.