Here's how to easily add all songs in your library/playlist

[Tenacious Impy]

Having started to use the Steam Music Player, I'm running into various issues and searching here, I've realised I'm not the only one facing some of these. I was unable to use multimedia keys but that was solved here. Now I'd like to play my entire library and make a playlist so that I can access it at any time (rather than adding every album/artist to a playlist, which takes ages). Here's how I did it[www.keyboardp.me]

• Open up command prompt (Windows) and navigate to your music directory (e.g. cd “C:\MyMusic"
  
• Type/copy paste in dir /o:n /s/b *.mp3 > queue.m3u8
  
• Check your music directory for a file called “queue.m3u8”. Open this in a text editor such as Notepad
  
• You should see a list of all your songs. At the very beginning of the file, add #EXTM3U
  
• Copy this queue.m3u8 file into the database directory of your Steam installation (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\music\_database)
  
• There should be a file called queue.m3u8 already there. Feel free to make a backup of this (it simply contains the current playlist loaded in your music player). Paste your newly created queue.m3u8 in this directory and overwrite the one already there.
  
• Restart Steam Music Player and you should have your entire library ready to listen to whilst playing CS:GO :) Combine it with SteamKeyJ and Steam Music Player becomes much more useful!

Bonus - If you want to create a permanent playlist in Steam so you don’t need to keep doing this, simply select the first song, hold shift, and select the last song. Right-click and select ‘Create Playlist’. You now have a playlist of your music library.

Hope that helps :)

[troshgad]

This Is Cool

[Tenacious Impy]

Thanks, hopefully serves as a replacement for a 'play all songs' button (until it's built in)

[Vashtido]

How to give thumbs up for this? Haha

[Tenacious Impy]

Haha not sure but glad it helped :)

[Dungeonlord]

i think it would be better if steam would just allow us to load an already existing .m3u playlist

[Tenacious Impy]

I agree, this is hopefully just a temporary solution until Steam has it built in.

[Bam]

Three years later and did Valve add an option to do this more easily that I'm not aware of?

For some time now I've been using a batch file that does this automatically, but a buil-in function would be better of course.
If anyone wants to do all this automatically here's the batch I've been using, you will only need to change the path to your music folder (mine is located on a different drive) and maybe the path to the '_database' folder if your Steam is not installed on the default path:

@echo off

E:
cd E:\Music
dir /o:n /s/b *.mp3, *.flac > queue.m3u8

(echo #EXTM3U) >queue.m3u8.new
type queue.m3u8 >>queue.m3u8.new
move /y queue.m3u8.new queue.m3u8

C:
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\music\_database
copy E:\Music\queue.m3u8

EXIT

[Daeva The Shadow Demon]

How- What? The first option is as confusing as the FNAF storyline, and I tried the second option (the one where you click the first song, hold shift, click the last song and say add to playlist)… It doesn't work... Somebody explain...

[Mojo Jojo]

It is 2019 and this trick of replacing the queue.m3u8 does not work anymore

[Hippie]

Was trying this earlier and seen it doesn't work anymore, but may have found another way. Completely shut steam or any other software that may be using the music files or you'll get a file in use error.
If you have all your songs in a single folder, CTRL + A then right click and select properties, then select the details tab and edit the album name, set it to music or whatever you want it to be, once done hit apply. Scroll through your songs and check that all your songs have the album name you set. If they have all changed then launch steam and once open, go to settings and the music tab, re-scan your library. Once its complete, check your music library for an album/s called music, its possible you may end up with more than one album if songs conflict. If its just the one album then you can use that straight out as the playlist, if its more than one album just add each to a playlist, clicking that button a few times is better than clicking it for hundreds of albums lol. Hope this helps any one.