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.

From the FAQ:

From the announcement:

Sounds like, for now, this is a convenience feature for steam users to access their own music while gaming rather than a distribution method.

"Man, that Slashdot beta was a real Doberhuahua"

Yep, and they seem to be banking on this SlashCloud and SlashBI, etc. SlashBullShit as of late so I bet they're going in the "original content" with minimal user interaction/minimal community direction. I bet the slashdot.org domain will be up for cheap in a couple years when DICE has finished looting the last corpse here so if someone still has an installation of SlashCode laying around we could probably get the site back up to speed pretty quickly in that eventuality.

It must suck to be Malda and see your website baby all grown up to be a junkie whore like this.

There was a very noticeable improvement in my friend's cat's gait when she (the cat) began taking a Cosequin supplement, so unless the placebo effect works for animals there was almost certainly something in the capsule that was beneficial to the cat.

LOL, what was the idea behind that? Did it parse the html/javascript code and send you an animated .gif as a screenbuffer or what?

Well I, for one, learned something interesting today, so you may rest assured that your comment did not go unappreciated.

Superintendent Chalmers: A graphics system... in the linux kernel... and hasn't changed... since the '90s?
Principal Skinner: Yes!
Superintendent Chalmers: May I see it?
Principal Skinner: Er, no.

Yeah, but why not though? Sometimes innovation is spurred by a certain naive ignorance, which is to say that there can be valuable insight by not being indoctrinated by idiom and custom, which is yet another way to say that sometimes "not knowing any better" is a good thing.

Damn, that *was* a clumsy sentence.

Or PHP for that matter...

(...kidding...)

I do. They're probably counterfeit magnets made out of melamine and lead paint, and they probably don't even have a south pole...

Incidentally, the comments on the fox news site are/were a bit amusing: on the one hand there's a "democratic socialist" asking important questions that might "impeach Obama", but on the other hand he's still a '"democratic socialist" so he's wrong by default. But hey, at least we have Ted Cruz to assure us this question is one “millions of Americans would like answered.”

Yes, exactly. Unlike the rest of you flaming fuckwads living in denial of your highfalutin, self-righteous, flaming fuckwaditude.

At least someone gets it.