(This seemed like the most relevant place to put something like this)
So after watching the last Tek, I grabbed the music player for Steam. I doubt Logan or anyone will read this, but if you do and haven't checked this out... you should. It's pretty awesome. Right now it's VERY basic, of course, but for a music player... I actually dig it. A lot. I might end up switching over to this from my beloved Foobar2k... D:
Has anyone else tried this? Any features that you desperately need missing?
I saw it just today, (I have been part of Steam Beta for a year or so.) Unfortunatly, I can't really test it as, my media is stored on my Hackintosh partition. If I get a chance, I might install Steam for Mac, and take a go through for this.
I actually like the simple build of steams music player. But for me personally I cant switch to it tell they let me integrate my audible library.
It wont play my flac rips so im sticking with foobar2k
For me it just needs more codec support (as Rudster says) and for me, as I listen to podcasts a lot, a scrub bar (timeline thingy mabob).
Although I will say the major bug I came across with this, is that I could no longer launch valve games.... :/
Try TF2. My friend has the same problem and you might just have solved it. Only some games don't work for him it depends on the version of the source engine used. So no portal 2 but working TF2.
music players are a dime a dozen, i honestly don't understand why anyone is the least bit interested
It isn't that the media player itself is particularly interesting but what this means for the future of Steam.
What we are seeing is a push from Valve to make Steam your one stop shop for all of your entertainment and media.
I'm sure we'll be seeing an integrated video player and a better browser built into Steam as well. Valve is really targeting the HTPC and console market here. One Steam machine that can play all of your games and media.
I'll be interested in FLAC and multi-disc album support. Playlists and/or generally more features would be nice.
I really like using Foobar in Windows, but as for Linux, having Steam's music player would be nice, since I haven't really found a player I like. Audacious is alright, but doesn't have the library support or customization Foobar has. Steam integration would at least be appreciated.
Yeah I finally got to use it. I have been in the beta since it began but because it needed Big Picture and mine is broken I never got to use it.
Now that I can use it and it works in the library view I love the way it works. I won't replace Foobar for organising but it will be nice for playing music without having to alt-tab and lose focus.