Valve will soon be letting Steam users into a beta test for their new music feature in the Steam overlay. Essentially Steam will let you ‘officially’ play any music you want when in a game.
This is to be added to Big Picture and SteamOS, where it might not be especially easy to get hold of your private music collection and play while gaming. It’ll manage playlists etc.
Of course the majority of PC gamers are already able to do this by using the mighty power of ALT+TAB, but then again some games are rather allergic to that.
Valve has started the Steam Music community group.
”The Steam Music Beta is coming soon to Big Picture and SteamOS interfaces, with desktop features soon to follow. To express interest in beta participation, join the Steam Music community group. Group members will be invited in waves, until the feature is released to everyone,” explains the blog.
”With Steam Music, you can now listen to your music collection while playing games. Once you’ve pointed Steam to your local music directory, your Steam Library will include Album and Artist views of your collection.”
