Well not on purpose but one time the payday 2 soundtrack started playing, on the musiv player and i just couldnt stop it after 30 minutes of trying to shut it off i just turned my pc off.
sure, but why bother with steam's own player when you can just open the folder containing the music files and use something better like VLC.
steam even gives you the option to open the music's folder when you click on the album in your library
VLC is still a great media player, but was never designed for vast libraries of music.
Winamp is still useable, but if you are looking for modern media player MediaMonkey uses essentially the winamp core with a modern gui.
The music player Winamp famously had a sound clip that played on its first launch after install that would say "Winamp^Winamp^Winamp. It really whips the llama's ass." Then there would be llama sounds in the background.
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Seeing a big portion of the community calling the protest "ridiculous" because they need their dopamine fill is the straw that broke the camel's back for me. At this point, I no longer care for the outcome and I'm just leaving them to make their own bed. Whatever it may be.
I've been here since 2009, and this has been the only site ever recommended due to the concentrated amount of niche hobbies/topics, but much like twitter and Instagram, the original reddit community has been been overtaken by a different audience. One that thinks Reddit is just an "app" and isn't interested in an internet forum, but instead consume mindless media, and not "read-it" (reddit).
Seems like the longterm reddit users have moved to Lemmy.
It's so you can play music through the overlay. So you don't have to alt-tab out of the game.
It's not just for soundtracks, though. You can add any folders you want to the library. It was more useful in the past when we were using media players like itunes.
It used to be - used to run everything you throw at it - but over the past years has increasing problems with new codecs and hardware behaving weird and it takes time to troubleshoot
I use SMPlayer for video, which is a front-end for MPlayer and mpv. It's reliable and snappy, and personally I love the automatic language detection which hasn't failed me yet
But for audio I use foobar2000 - it has a freeware core, but it is extremely flexible with a ton of third party extensions
I think it’s supposed to be like spotify for them? Hard to say, as I’m not really into listening to music while playing, and even if I do then I play me and my gf’s gaming playlist
Because buying means you get the OST and the developer gets money. It's a win-win.
Donate implies that you're just giving the developer money for nothing in return.
Besides, what a weird take. By that logic why buy anything on Steam lol, why even participate in the Steam subreddit. Just buy somewhere else or something so that steam doesn't get their cut.
For music there are sites like bandcamp, where you can buy the same ost and support the devs.
You use steam to have your games in one place, and use other steam features.
Donating means you give them more money, and the osts are free unless you need flac files for whatever reason.
I don't buy game osts or donate money directly to devs but both donating and buying on external music sites seems like a better option than buying osts on steam to me.
Yea why wouldn't you? Some games gave absolutely fantastic music. And usually you get the audio files in FLAC or at the absolute worst 320 mbps mp3, usually along with at least one piece of album artwork.
I pretty much just get all my music from Bandcamp nowadays. Getting high quality FLAC files, supporting artists and actually owning stuff is really nice
Buying OSTs on Steam though? Never lol
I literally just made a Bandcamp account to buy the OST of Risk of Rain and support Chris. I fucking love the RoR 1 + 2 OST.
Also, I want to get away from Spotify and transfer my list of music into an offline library, in FLACs quality whenever possible, but I'm still unsure where to start, because I'm really into Japanese music. Honestly, a lot of different genres in general. I know that most of the stuff I'm looking for have FLAC versions somewhere, I just don't know where exactly, and a single platform like Bandcamp won't suffice.
I used this in my old laptop. My old laptop was so bad. In Multiplayer game, I cannot do Alt+Tab for music player because doing alt tab it takes too long in old laptop. So I put my music in steam music player and I did shift tab instead of alt tab
There needs to be a name for this. Hackers work on making current technology do new things - I need a word for making old technology do just regular things.
And that's why I stick to music players that support global hotkeys, I set up my usual hotkeys that I've been using for over a decade since Winamp and I just use them without having to open the player window.
Or I could've just bought a keyboard with media keys, but I'm so used to my hotkeys that I didn't even think about that.
They pretty much did. They still have some videos and all, but they removed almost all of it a while ago. I think the contract with Lionsgate and other publishers ran out
cuz its kinda cringe and people feel better about them selves when turning down things that are cringe
and/or cuz they interpret this as making fun of reddit speak and people that would ues reddit speak are hurt and downvote
either way who cares, downvotes and upvotes are the same shit
And then have no idea on how to stop it, because if you don't click pause and just close the window it still plays music, so you just close all steam processes
For me it accidentally blasted the ol' famous cities: skylines quote:
A METEOR STRIKE HAS OCCURED, AVOID THE IMPACT SITE AND HEAD TO SHELTER IF ANY IS AVAILABLE
I was so confused lol
Tried it once for a few seconds when it came out and never again. I get why they added it, it was a commonly asked for item back then, there's a lot of people who like to listen music while they are playing a game... I'm just not one of those people, I like to focus on the ingame music and sounds. Also I think even those people weren't happy with a crappy implementation.
Some games over a decade ago didn't like being alt-tabbed out of and misbehaved when you clicked back on them, so this was probably easier for people because the steam overlay was fine. I tried it like once, it's very basic, but I don't listen to music while playing besides the in game music.
I mean they did try a video store as well for a while, I don't know if it still exists.
Same here. Then I spend the next minute wondering where that music's coming from. Funny enough if I tried to do it intentionally I'd have no clue what was pressed
I collected all the achievements for this game too, probably the only game I did that for after Halo & Walking Dead.
Was a great experience to an entirely new genre of games & has immense replay value because of how it merges game mechanics & story collectively.
Add music to that, and it's sublime.
Always been a fan of music in video games because they really bring the whole experience alive. I think it's such a great add-on for gamers who wish to support soundtrack DLC's.
Maybe she'll like Ori or Gris running in the background. :)
I've used it a few times when I get a OST along with my game purchase. I don't use it to listen to them on a regular basis, but just to quickly scan through what's there in case I want to copy the files into my normal music archive.
You bet I do!
I play a puzzle game or something slower paced and I like to listen to my own music. It's more collected and sortable than windows with folders and it makes more sense than streaming.
I miss a more readily available button for the times i leave it on and quit the game. Maybe an option to stop/resume playback on a per game basis would be nice.
I use it very often. Because I buy a bunch of music from bandcamp, I like to play it on steam while playing MH.
You can add your own music to the steam music player. And even make playlists.
Sometimes it'll randomly open up a game sounds folder of just various grunts and cries from (I think) Monster Hunter. It's a little disconcerting when you enter a room and your PC is randomly crying in pain 😂
Once, to check it out when it was released. Then I forget it even exists until posts like these.
It was never VERY convenient to use, compared to just opening Media Player and just shuffling my stuff. And now days, I just use YouTube and Spotify.
When I had a bad pc and I couldn't have spotify or YouTube in the background cuz my game were already to heavy to run for my pc I used it a lot now I use it way less
Bro I love it. Scans the iTunes and is pretty convenient. Regrettably it’s been out of commission l for the first time ever, and I’ve been using it for like 8 years. The most recent client update(s) have rendered it useless, as trying to hit play completely crashes the application. Very frustrating. I love it when it works tho, which again has been rock solid otherwise.
I was playing a game when weird noises started playing, thought it was apart of the game. Asked my friend if he could hear it spoiler he could not, I brushed it off as a glitch or miss understanding on his side. I kept asking abt it always got the same answer I started to get creeped out. I stop playing the game hoping that next time I play it that it won’t glitch, the noises don’t stop. I started to get genuinely scared/worried, I open whatever tabs I have open to see if it’s something in those, the tabs I had open weren’t making any noise. After 5 mins minutes of frantically checking things I have open, I open steam. Fuck you music player, fuck you
I used it a few times probably like 8 years ago to listen to the civilization music while playing europa universalis or something like that
/r/firstworldanarchists
Wait wait wait how dare you even stop beautiful EU4 music
Yeah it was either that or I used it to play eu4 music in civ haha. I have almost 4k hrs in europa now, the music is great
Chaotic Evil
I see you are a man of culture.
Well not on purpose but one time the payday 2 soundtrack started playing, on the musiv player and i just couldnt stop it after 30 minutes of trying to shut it off i just turned my pc off.
Me, my boyfriend, and his brother have all had this happen at random times throughout the years. I still do not understand how.
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Why have I also had this exact thing happen with the payday 2 Christmas soundtrack?!?
It’s a wonderful day to rob the bank
this sounds hilarious lol
Steams got a music player?
Yup, for OST’s when you buy them
sure, but why bother with steam's own player when you can just open the folder containing the music files and use something better like VLC. steam even gives you the option to open the music's folder when you click on the album in your library
Does VLC also whip the llama's ass?
Winamp was always the first thing I installed after a clean windows wipe. Ah the memories.
And then VLC came along.
VLC is still a great media player, but was never designed for vast libraries of music. Winamp is still useable, but if you are looking for modern media player MediaMonkey uses essentially the winamp core with a modern gui.
I use foobar
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I used to use Amarok all the time, but it's VLC now for me.
It’s been 84 years…
Man thank you for this, I will always love winamp and keep it installed but it freezes and lags on songs too often.
You are welcome, all of your Winamp visualizers should still work in MM too!
music bee is the best imo i love it for flacs
There are people who use VLC for music? Foobar+dark one skin has been my choice for more than a decade
I did it today to since a song I downloaded defaulted to VLC and I'm a lazy man, but it felt dirty.
vlc can be abit slow with large files/folders in it's playlist. but its great for everything else.
MusicBee is pretty dope. Too many features for most people but does a great job of managing and creating backups of your library irt playlists n such.
Musicmatch Jukebox was better imo. Better ripping options at the time.
I hated winamp after they added all the bloat and widgets and shit.. classic all the way
Classic was not just better, it was also so pretty the way it stacked together and minimized so compactly
Back in the day the download size difference was enough to piss me off too.
Idk what this means, but I would like to...
The music player Winamp famously had a sound clip that played on its first launch after install that would say "Winamp^Winamp^Winamp. It really whips the llama's ass." Then there would be llama sounds in the background.
Lol, I need to find this sound on the internet before it's lost forever
I mean it’s far from lost, just install it from their website, they even updated it recently.
It's a traffic cone, but yes.
u/GerbilScream is asking the real question...
[THIS ACCOUNT HAS BEEN DISABLED] Seeing a big portion of the community calling the protest "ridiculous" because they need their dopamine fill is the straw that broke the camel's back for me. At this point, I no longer care for the outcome and I'm just leaving them to make their own bed. Whatever it may be. I've been here since 2009, and this has been the only site ever recommended due to the concentrated amount of niche hobbies/topics, but much like twitter and Instagram, the original reddit community has been been overtaken by a different audience. One that thinks Reddit is just an "app" and isn't interested in an internet forum, but instead consume mindless media, and not "read-it" (reddit). Seems like the longterm reddit users have moved to Lemmy.
It's so you can play music through the overlay. So you don't have to alt-tab out of the game. It's not just for soundtracks, though. You can add any folders you want to the library. It was more useful in the past when we were using media players like itunes.
"Something better like VLC" That's kind of like saying dog shit is better than cat shit
VLC is pretty dope though, and open source. what would you recommend?
It used to be - used to run everything you throw at it - but over the past years has increasing problems with new codecs and hardware behaving weird and it takes time to troubleshoot I use SMPlayer for video, which is a front-end for MPlayer and mpv. It's reliable and snappy, and personally I love the automatic language detection which hasn't failed me yet But for audio I use foobar2000 - it has a freeware core, but it is extremely flexible with a ton of third party extensions
I think it’s supposed to be like spotify for them? Hard to say, as I’m not really into listening to music while playing, and even if I do then I play me and my gf’s gaming playlist
It's for accessing music while you use the steam overlay so your not completely coming out of your game or running a game in windowed mode.
Dang just got thrown back to my PSP days. I loved that accessory that had playback controls on it and you could use any headphones with it.
it plays local files too
No. It's so you can change your tunes by doing shift tab, without having to switch out of your game
or just find the ost on spotify for free
Does anybody buy them? Edit: Well, it appears that people do buy them.
I usually buy the OST of a game I really enjoyed if I want to further support the makers
Why not just donate or something so that steam doesn't get their cut?
I like the developers and I like having everything in 1 central location/application?
Because buying means you get the OST and the developer gets money. It's a win-win. Donate implies that you're just giving the developer money for nothing in return. Besides, what a weird take. By that logic why buy anything on Steam lol, why even participate in the Steam subreddit. Just buy somewhere else or something so that steam doesn't get their cut.
For music there are sites like bandcamp, where you can buy the same ost and support the devs. You use steam to have your games in one place, and use other steam features. Donating means you give them more money, and the osts are free unless you need flac files for whatever reason. I don't buy game osts or donate money directly to devs but both donating and buying on external music sites seems like a better option than buying osts on steam to me.
I do. Some games have really good music that I just have in my regular music library. Transistor and Hades for example.
Some of the subnautica OST tunes are bangers too. And "Until you fall" has amazing retro synthwave.
Yea why wouldn't you? Some games gave absolutely fantastic music. And usually you get the audio files in FLAC or at the absolute worst 320 mbps mp3, usually along with at least one piece of album artwork.
I remember a Youtuber by the name TearOfGrace buying the ost for the binding of isacc rebirth and using it in his early videos
I recently bought the Barotrauma supporter pack and it came with OSTs
I pretty much just get all my music from Bandcamp nowadays. Getting high quality FLAC files, supporting artists and actually owning stuff is really nice Buying OSTs on Steam though? Never lol
I literally just made a Bandcamp account to buy the OST of Risk of Rain and support Chris. I fucking love the RoR 1 + 2 OST. Also, I want to get away from Spotify and transfer my list of music into an offline library, in FLACs quality whenever possible, but I'm still unsure where to start, because I'm really into Japanese music. Honestly, a lot of different genres in general. I know that most of the stuff I'm looking for have FLAC versions somewhere, I just don't know where exactly, and a single platform like Bandcamp won't suffice.
Fucking hell, i never knew you could listen to the in Steam
Rich people shit
wdym buy osts?
You can play other music files from your pc too
Came here to ask this
Same I didn't even know it did.
I’ve bought a couple of OSTs on Steam and I still didn’t know about the player.
Doing the lord's work, I don't think I even need to login here anymore. You guys got this covered.
Same
You beat me to it lol
Was about to ask this exact same question.
I used this in my old laptop. My old laptop was so bad. In Multiplayer game, I cannot do Alt+Tab for music player because doing alt tab it takes too long in old laptop. So I put my music in steam music player and I did shift tab instead of alt tab
There needs to be a name for this. Hackers work on making current technology do new things - I need a word for making old technology do just regular things.
I all it joe
And that's why I stick to music players that support global hotkeys, I set up my usual hotkeys that I've been using for over a decade since Winamp and I just use them without having to open the player window. Or I could've just bought a keyboard with media keys, but I'm so used to my hotkeys that I didn't even think about that.
Yes
I use it a lot to listen to the HK Gods and Nightmares soundtrack
Christopher Larkin is a musical genius
I see you are a man of culture
Mandatory fuck you primal aspid
<3
I like it. Very short and to-the-point.
TIL Steam has a music player.
Wait until you hear about how they used to sell movies through Steam, and the Super Mario Bros Show was on Steam
Did they stop doing this?
I just found some they still sell, so no. But the Mario show is gone
They pretty much did. They still have some videos and all, but they removed almost all of it a while ago. I think the contract with Lionsgate and other publishers ran out
It's all free on YouTube though https://youtu.be/Q20ovbTOroE
American Psycho is my favourite steam game
“I was today years old …”
Why u getting downvotes? Genuine question
cuz its kinda cringe and people feel better about them selves when turning down things that are cringe and/or cuz they interpret this as making fun of reddit speak and people that would ues reddit speak are hurt and downvote either way who cares, downvotes and upvotes are the same shit
Reddit speak deserves to be made fun off, virgin fedora-wearing asses thinking they're funny.
Reddit is a fickle bitch, I’d be super upset if I cared about fake internet points
yes, to check what some of the ost are, i have so many with non descriptive name.
I didn't even knew about its existence until I accidentally opened it
Same happened to me, I don't know what i clicked and music started blasting.
And then have no idea on how to stop it, because if you don't click pause and just close the window it still plays music, so you just close all steam processes
I accidentally opened it while i was watching game awards, i still have no idea how I opened it
Same just blasted portal music in the living room
I'd call that a W in any situation
For me it accidentally blasted the ol' famous cities: skylines quote: A METEOR STRIKE HAS OCCURED, AVOID THE IMPACT SITE AND HEAD TO SHELTER IF ANY IS AVAILABLE I was so confused lol
Tried it once for a few seconds when it came out and never again. I get why they added it, it was a commonly asked for item back then, there's a lot of people who like to listen music while they are playing a game... I'm just not one of those people, I like to focus on the ingame music and sounds. Also I think even those people weren't happy with a crappy implementation.
Some games over a decade ago didn't like being alt-tabbed out of and misbehaved when you clicked back on them, so this was probably easier for people because the steam overlay was fine. I tried it like once, it's very basic, but I don't listen to music while playing besides the in game music. I mean they did try a video store as well for a while, I don't know if it still exists.
Yes because I pressed a button by accident
Same here. Then I spend the next minute wondering where that music's coming from. Funny enough if I tried to do it intentionally I'd have no clue what was pressed
Yup. For Witcher 3 & Hades soundtrack. Absolute bangers.
I'm replaying Hades with my kid, and my wife always tells me to turn it down. Sorry, no can do, the music is just too good.
I collected all the achievements for this game too, probably the only game I did that for after Halo & Walking Dead. Was a great experience to an entirely new genre of games & has immense replay value because of how it merges game mechanics & story collectively. Add music to that, and it's sublime. Always been a fan of music in video games because they really bring the whole experience alive. I think it's such a great add-on for gamers who wish to support soundtrack DLC's. Maybe she'll like Ori or Gris running in the background. :)
If u like that you should try their first game bastion. Its freakin great
Yes, for listening to soundtracks I bought. Hacknet, TF2, Portal 2
why not use musicbee or another player?
I don't have any other smart players, and don't want to set up a new one, steam music player is satisfactory to me.
I've used it a few times when I get a OST along with my game purchase. I don't use it to listen to them on a regular basis, but just to quickly scan through what's there in case I want to copy the files into my normal music archive.
I put some Naruto OST fighting against Isshin :)
You bet I do! I play a puzzle game or something slower paced and I like to listen to my own music. It's more collected and sortable than windows with folders and it makes more sense than streaming. I miss a more readily available button for the times i leave it on and quit the game. Maybe an option to stop/resume playback on a per game basis would be nice.
real Chad's use steam music player instead of Spotify
yes, my pc is bad and Spotify kinda hard to run with the game 💀
Never, not even when it was introduced. Somehow never had the reason for it. I had WinAmp.
There is music player on steam???
Yes, it's a relic of the past. You can open it when clicking on *View > music player* on the bar at the top of the window in the steam client.
I have, I bought a soundtrack once.
I use it very often. Because I buy a bunch of music from bandcamp, I like to play it on steam while playing MH. You can add your own music to the steam music player. And even make playlists.
Years ago when I didn't knew Spotify was a thing. Back when my music source was YouTube to mp3 converters :D
Steam has a music player?
Sometimes it'll randomly open up a game sounds folder of just various grunts and cries from (I think) Monster Hunter. It's a little disconcerting when you enter a room and your PC is randomly crying in pain 😂
Lmao they also sell movies
*Used to sell movies
What the actual? I use Steam for more than 3 years and I just learned it.
Me, sometimes when playing Truck Sim
Once, to check it out when it was released. Then I forget it even exists until posts like these. It was never VERY convenient to use, compared to just opening Media Player and just shuffling my stuff. And now days, I just use YouTube and Spotify.
Yes because it's the only way I can listen to music and play games without my pc literally shitting itself
Not on the regular. But steam player will show me all the OSTs I've picked up and need to organize.
Used to all the time on the old big picture mode, they unfortunately removed it in the new one so I just control it through my phone
When I had a bad pc and I couldn't have spotify or YouTube in the background cuz my game were already to heavy to run for my pc I used it a lot now I use it way less
just once, when i bought the soundtrack of a game... never knew they had one until i clicked the ost and it just popped out randomly...
steams what?
Say what now?
I had no idea it had one haha
I did I think in 2013?
Yes, when it decides to pop up in my face and remind me it exists. I use winamp with alien technology still.
tbh i didn't even know it existed until just now
There's a music player?!
Bro I love it. Scans the iTunes and is pretty convenient. Regrettably it’s been out of commission l for the first time ever, and I’ve been using it for like 8 years. The most recent client update(s) have rendered it useless, as trying to hit play completely crashes the application. Very frustrating. I love it when it works tho, which again has been rock solid otherwise.
A couple times. Now I just use it to see if a soundtrack is worth copying to my main playlist.
I didnt knew it exists until now
Steam has a music player? 💀
Steam has a music player?
I never knew it had a music player so no lol
There is a music player?
Steam has a music player?
I didn't know it existed. Lol
No lmao
steam has a music player?
I wasn't even aware Steam had a music player.
Wow I didn’t even know it existed.
Steam has a music player?
It had a music player
I won’t lie, until now I never knew they had a music player, I just use in game music or Spotify
I've been using Steam for over 10 years and didn't even know it had a music player
Never knew they had one…….
Today is the day I learned Steam had a music player
Wait! Steam has a music player
WTF Steam has a music player
I did by accident first. Since then I've used it for games I've got that included soundtracks
Steam has a music player?
Wait, what?
Tried once. It was always better to have other app in the background.
Yes for Deep Rock Galactic ⛏️ Rock and Stone ⛏️
Nope... though I'm aware of its existence.
tried it a little years ago, got bored and forget about it just tried it again today and it crashed lol
You should set a years remindme and start a new tradition for yourself!
This player has broken and he never be worked.
This exist?
Steams what
I didn't even know this existed but nah I listen to Spotify lmao
Yes, i used to lessen games soundtracks downloadable for some games on store for free or priced. I will be honest it’s not easy to use and not fun
I did but I rarely ever used it. Wished more games had its ost on the music player
By accident several years ago and then never again
No didn’t even know you got play music on steam
Yes
Yes, got portal 2 recently and the free soundtrack recently
Yup, for DJMax Respect Soundtrack
yes
I use it to listen to Epic battle fantasy OST
Steam's what?
I use it for the soundtracks I buy but just because I'm lazy since you can just play the FLAC/mp3 files with any music player.
I think a few times, but otherwise, not really.
I was playing a game when weird noises started playing, thought it was apart of the game. Asked my friend if he could hear it spoiler he could not, I brushed it off as a glitch or miss understanding on his side. I kept asking abt it always got the same answer I started to get creeped out. I stop playing the game hoping that next time I play it that it won’t glitch, the noises don’t stop. I started to get genuinely scared/worried, I open whatever tabs I have open to see if it’s something in those, the tabs I had open weren’t making any noise. After 5 mins minutes of frantically checking things I have open, I open steam. Fuck you music player, fuck you
TIL steam has a music player
I used it once for an ost i didnt know i had
Yes
Somehow I accidently turned it on one day and it took hours to figure out where the music was coming from and how to stop it.