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Valve Gives Away Game Soundtracks as Steam Music Goes Live

In-game music player now available to all, with free soundtracks for those who own associated games; Valve sale marks occasion.

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Valve has opened up Steam Music Player to all Steam users following several months of beta testing, and is offering up some of its own game soundtracks for free to mark the occasion.

The Steam Music Player offers in-game access to audio files, which can be played via the platform's shift+tab overlay. It means that players don't need to exit full screen or switch tasks in order to peruse their music collection and queue up songs to play.

To mark the occasion, Valve is offering Steam users some of its most popular game soundtracks for free. Those who already own games such as Half-Life 2 and Portal 2 will now find the soundtracks of them in the Steam Music Library section.

Valve is also hosting a 75 percent discount on six games that have their own soundtracks. They are:

Since its release in 2004, Steam has become an essential platform for many PC gamers. The platform, which is also available on Mac and Linux, has amassed more than 100 million users.

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The video on this page has nothing to do with the page's topic.

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Nice but... lots of these games just keep the music in mp3 or ogg format, which is easily copied to other places on your hard drive.

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Im gonna play this all day:

''Go make some new disaster,
That’s what I’m counting on,
You’re someone else’s problem,
Now I only want you gone.''

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I like to listen to songs *outside* of the game and never enables the Steam overlay. I haven't played any games where I didn't like the music or would have liked to replace it with something else, so this is another effort by Valve that I don't care about. I already have too many games, so their refined search and discover settings are of no use to me.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I like the music in pretty much all my games BUT some of them just don't have enough. I've set up Distant Worlds and Europa Universalis 4 to play music from bunches of games.

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This is awesome! What a great addition to the Steam platform.

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I got excited as I saw bastion in the thumbnail and read the title. I thought that would've been free :/

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I thought the featured video would have mentioned the topic...

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Nice, not really something that interests me much, but im all for new Steam features!

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I wonder if it's mandatory to have the game installed in order to get the soundtrack

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Some people in other sites seems to confirm that, since they all complain about having uninstalled the game and needing to reinstall it to get access to the soundtrack.

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Yes! My profile pic is relevant.

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"There was a problem adding this product to your Steam account."

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<< LINK REMOVED >> You must own that game in order to get the free DLC.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> meh

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