A status to show your listening to music

[Splash Colour]

A feature i thought that maybe good is to add where you can have instead of (Online) etc, to have where you start listening to music, and your status changes to (Listening to music) or (Listening to "Linkin park - Numb") etc.. something to indicate that the user is listening to music.

[hobo]

Not sure the Community needs this. Who cares what one's doing when it's showed he's online? No one, just as well as no one would care of what one's listening to. The latter is useless at least because of inability "to grab" a track and listen to it.

[Soyvideojuegos]

I loved that feature back in the days of MSN Messenger

[Cryosphered]

Big Picture and Mobile use a controller and a mobile device respectively to show those statuses so maybe a music note to show people are listening to music?

[Splash Colour]

Exactly, something to show Loki.

[hobo]

Originally posted by Jamie:

Exactly, something to show Loki.

For what purpose? If you could check out the song being listened to immediately by 1 click it would be fine, but, one more time then, who cares whether a person is listening to music or hanging in the web?

Btw, there's already an existent topic of the same content.

[Splash Colour]

Yeah, but i posted it because I was thinking it wasn't already thought of.

[Splash Colour]

Well if you think about it, giving a status that he/she is listening to music can be useful towards showing that the person may not be able to hear you etc since they are listening to music. the music status can also be the same type of status people running Big Picture mode has with the Steam controller icon showing. so why not have a status for Steam music having a music icon as a status?

[The Crysis Core]

+1
IMO if it shows what game we are playing currently then the same should be done for music.

[Bcoder]

+1

[Splash Colour]

Yes, thanks for the support towards this feature guys! :)

[Dzou]

+1

I had this turned on all of the time back in the MSN days and i definitely loved it. It will definitely popularize the feature and help further enhance the social element of the Steam application. It doesn't require major changes to the UI and it enhances the experience for all the users.

It gives us a really nice feature and people who don't want to see/use it are free to turn it off.

[hobo]

Your willing to make something work need a lot more support, the feature won't be implemented due to both lack of pressure on it going and its uselessness because of hard drive music playback.

[Splash Colour]

How do you know 'lol'? because they have done it for the big picture with a controller, which yet big picture has steam music which is in beta at the moment which yet works fine, all they need is to add a status to the feature that shows your listening to music. btw, I am a beta tester for steam music.

[Dzou]

"the feature won't be implemented"

From which official sources have you acquired that information? Have you personally talked to the devs. Sheesh.

We're here to suggest. That is what this forum is for. If they like the idea they will maybe think about it and possibly include it. I think (and quite a few people here as it seems) that this would be a great feature I really miss back from the pre-Facebook era when MSN was a thing.

If you are so strongly against the idea then you're free not to post here. You are actually just helping OP with your spam because you're bumping the thread and, hence, making it more visible to the dev.

[hobo]

Making something only because one likes is not always worth it. Thereby as I said with at least one fact making the feature useless you need more support here. You already mentioned "quite a few people" supporting the idea but, well, look at how's "your favourite music formats" thread is going (№1).

As it is stated in the Steam Music's description it is made to provide people with a more comfortable gameplay, so here we can already say that most of time people'll listen to music when only playing. What should be displayed in their status then? A game's name they are in or song's name (which you can't even "click-n-listen"). But of course you don't need to play a game to listen to what you like, then will you ever use the feature of Steam for this? Do you even have a music collection on your HDD lol? Even if so, if you have... it only fits a media library what actually a Steam Machine will be.