Comment Re:I don't dislike Valve (Score 1) 102
What it brings to the table is the ability to select from your music library and play the music from the steam overlay in-game or from the steam big picture interface. No need to leave the game to open another shell or DE, no need to fiddle with the commandline, none of that. Instead, pause game, select music, resume game rather than pause game, switch to xmms (or whatever), manage music from xmms which may or may not work with a joypad, switch back to the game then resume play. It's just convenience.
It's a way of integrating the user's local music library with their local steam game library from within the steam application interface. Basically it's one step towards making the steam application into a general purpose media player rather than just a game library management interface.