On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 18:58:47 -0600, PW
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iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.com> wrote:
Hi,
>
All the YouTube videos I found say there is an option for music player
under the View menu. It does not exist.
>
How do I stop Steam from playing a soundtrack or whatever? I have to
bring up the task manager and end Steam in order to get them to stop!
The view menu just lets you to jump to the list of soundtracks
directly; there is no dedicated 'music player' option. You can use it
to show all your soundtracks, select the album, and find the play
controls there. It's cumbersome, but it works.
An easier method is to click the little "show soundtrack controls"
button that appears in the titlebar of the main Steam window. AFAIK,
this only appears once you have downloaded and started playing a
soundtrack (it's not there all the time)
You can access the soundtracks in-game too (by pressing Shift-Tab to
pull up the Steam overlay), but you have to enable the music player
first. Go to settings, select "in game" from left pane, click "toolbar
preferences" in right pane, then toggle "soundtrack player". Now when
you SHIFT-TAB in game, a little music icon will appear in the toolbar
at the bottom of the screen. Click that for music player controls
Steam used to have a dedicated music player feature that would let you
play not only downloaded soundtracks but also music from outside of
your steam library. It was deprecated a few years ago. All that's left
is this messy, inconsistent half-assed implementation.
[Valve /really/ needs to do a clean-up of the app. It's
feature rich, but all those features are scattered about *
haphazardly and aren't anywhere you'd expect them to be.
The music-player is just one example of this. Alternately,
make the interface configurable and then let users download
skins/mods that fit their own individual needs, as is
frequently done with open-source software]
Honestly, I just don't bother with Steam for music; I use a
third-party app. If I get a soundtrack on Steam that I want to keep, I
just copy the files from the Steam folder to the directory where I
stash my other music files. It gives me a consistent UI for playing
music --in Steam or out--, it supports the multimedia function keys on
my keyboard (which Steam player does not), and it lets me play all my
tunes, not just the handful Steam allows.
* it's a bit dated, but here's one person's take on what a Steam
redesign might look like. Whether you like her decisions or not, she
does a good job of pointing out the clutter and inconsistency the
client currently suffers from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDY2p1CTkPo
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