From PC World: The Steam updates are flying fast and furious—after this week's earlier Discovery Update, Valve has now pushed Steam Music to the public at large, concluding a beta period that began back in February.
Why this matters: It doesn't, if you're on a traditional PC or Mac. But Steam Music will be an important part of the ecosystem when living room-focused Steam Machine gaming consoles launch with Valve's new SteamOS operating system.
As you might've guessed, Steam Music has to deal with music. Specifically, you can now listen to your tunes directly through Steam instead of needing a standalone media player. You can access Steam Music through View > Music Player or Music Details in the Steam client or in-game by pulling up the Steam Overlay (defaulted to Shift-Tab) and clicking the Music tab at the bottom.
Doing so will call up a new floating window that will list all your music (though you may have to point it to your library and direct it to scan in Steam's preference panel). You can browse your entire collection of music by either album or artist, or create a playlist within Steam—like, for instance, that playlist you'll inevitably make called "360 No-Scoping" that's just Drowning Pool's "Bodies" on repeat three-hundred and sixty times.
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