music player in shift tab steam overlay

[DweebotheGeek]

I think it would be amazing if i could shift tab and have a button i could click that would have a music player with volume control ect. would be even more amazing if you could buy mp3 right off steam and add them to your music library. valve you guys are genious figure out some sort of way to add music to my steam experience. if you dont want to get into the digital music selling buisness at least add steam overlay functionality to utilize the music library you may already have on your computer.

[Shirts93]

I agree with this, or even plugins for thinks like spotify, iTunes and media player. Found a lot of times where I wanted to be able to change music or pause and play mid games.

[76561198077421294]

They are doing this with releasing SteamOS,as for now you can listen music from youtube or anything similar with in-game browser ;)

[DweebotheGeek]

spotify plugin ftw

[Fox]

Well, let's see...

Originally posted by DweebotheGeek:

I think it would be amazing if i could shift tab and have a button i could click that would have a music player with volume control ect.

Whatever music software you use has ready-to-use controls. Alt-tab out, switch them, alt-tab in. Simple. So, pointless. For the measly games which crashes upon alt-tabbing, you can still use the in-game browser.
Invalid.

Originally posted by DweebotheGeek:

[It] would be even more amazing if you could buy mp3 right off steam and add them to your music library. valve you guys are genious figure out some sort of way to add music to my steam experience.

You know how hard it'd be for a business to get its way into music market ?
It'd be hard, time-consuming and would require actually a lot of work. I don't think Valve would try this, with SteamOS and propably soon-to-be-developed games to worry about.
Invalid.

Originally posted by DweebotheGeek:

at least add steam overlay functionality to utilize the music library you may already have on your computer.

See first point above.

[DweebotheGeek]

Originally posted by Fox:

Well, let's see...

Originally posted by DweebotheGeek:

I think it would be amazing if i could shift tab and have a button i could click that would have a music player with volume control ect.

Whatever music software you use has ready-to-use controls. Alt-tab out, switch them, alt-tab in. Simple. So, pointless. For the measly games which crashes upon alt-tabbing, you can still use the in-game browser.
Invalid.

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a music plugin like this wouldnt be designed to appeal to a casual gamer like yourself who can simply pause the game and alt tab out. This would benefit gamers who play more competitive games where they cannot afford to lose the time to alt tab and select some music. What im proposing isnt something for you so do not comment on it.

Originally posted by Fox:

Originally posted by DweebotheGeek:

[It] would be even more amazing if you could buy mp3 right off steam and add them to your music library. valve you guys are genious figure out some sort of way to add music to my steam experience.

You know how hard it'd be for a business to get its way into music market ?
It'd be hard, time-consuming and would require actually a lot of work. I don't think Valve would try this, with SteamOS and propably soon-to-be-developed games to worry about.
Invalid.

[/quote]

This statement just highlights your ignorance. You pretend to know what it takes to get into the music market.... im not even sure what your trying to achieve by posting this comment. Quite strange actually.

Originally posted by Fox:

Originally posted by DweebotheGeek:

at least add steam overlay functionality to utilize the music library you may already have on your computer.

See first point above.

Im thinking your brain and the way it operates may be invalid.

[Fox]

Originally posted by DweebotheGeek:

a music plugin like this wouldnt be designed to appeal to a casual gamer like yourself who can simply pause the game and alt tab out. This would benefit gamers who play more competitive games where they cannot afford to lose the time to alt tab and select some music. What im proposing isnt something for you so do not comment on it.

A competitive gamer, as you said, wouldn't even want to grab some music. It's very distracting from your goal which is to do everything you can to win. So, I kinda fail to see the point for a "competitive" gamer.
It'd be, in fact, paradoxalically BETTER for the casual gamer, who just want to have his fun, get the least amount of efforts to do, and stray away for proper game experience.

Originally posted by DweebotheGeek:

This statement just highlights your ignorance. You pretend to know what it takes to get into the music market....

Well, try talking to music labels and tell them to cut their profit to sell their music on a game store. You may even try to tell that to any artist you would want.
Turns out, no one would do that, as it makes no sense for them. Or at least, there wouldn't be enough of them for it to be worth maintaining.

Originally posted by DweebotheGeek:

im not even sure what your trying to achieve by posting this comment. Quite strange actually.

Suggestions tend to be argued over, for and against. Whether you like it or not, you agreed to see those kinds of post by posting here.

EDIT : corrected poor wording.

[DweebotheGeek]

Well, lets see fox.. Ive suggested a feature that many users might find useful and would greatly appriciate and you are telling me it should not even be considered and writtin off as "invalid" simply because "fox" prefers to alt-tab out of games and thinks competitive gamers should not listen to music. I concede, shift tab music player capability is clearly damaging to the steam interface.

[SkylineEter]

It is a good idea, this way you can play music straight from the Steam program VS playing the music from Youtube or Itunes (which takes up system resources, making your computer and potentially your game run slower

[Ineffable Anathema]

Too much hostility in this thread.

[rettshift]

Originally posted by I AM SHODAN!:

Too much hostility in this thread.

For reals.

But I agree this would be nifty. No need to sell anything(though Steam may be looking into that idk) just allow for a simple music player in the overlay that pulls from a folder on your hard drive. Alt tabbing can get annoying, and shift-tabbing is so much more convenient. I, for one, am all for this.