i'm not even sure why it shows me the 1) music.Valve announced some significant changes to how soundtracks are handled on Steam. not because of licensing issues.īut i think this is stupid since i may want to buy the soundtrack of a game without wanting to buy the game itself. I think they are marked as DLC that can be downloaded only with the game, only because it's easier for the systems already in place. If they have already sold the music files as separate files, not directly connected to the game, then they should have the appropriate license you are talking about.

So yes, what you are talking about is surely applying for case 1). when i open it, it sends me to a separate folder with separate files, not the ones the game uses.

if i open it, it sends me to nested folders inside the game folder, and to the very same files that the game is using when playing.Ģ) While the music from Dungeon of the Endless, i have already bought as a separate thing - soundtrack. steam is actually showing me the game files. What i mean is, in steam when i go to music, i have the music from Cities Skyline, and i have the music from Dungeon of the Endless (among some others, but i will use only those for the example).ġ) But i have never bought the music of Cities Skyline. If there is a completely separate thing to buy here for the soundtrack, it's no longer the in-game music. Standalone licensing is an entirely different thing and usually costs more.Īren't you talking for a different thing? i mean 'When you license music for use in a game you are only allowed to distribute it with the game,' this is for the ingame music. When you license music for use in a game you are only allowed to distribute it with the game, otherwise that's a violation. They may not actually have the license to distribute the soundtrack seperate from the game. Originally posted by Start_Running:Well that's actually smart. I always buy the two together and one comes as DLC. You described exactly what I wanted to question! That's it! I just want to listen to the soundtrack and not install every game.

Please bug your favorite game composers to release their soundtracks on Bandcamp or something, where you can go buy it by itself and you can also download it by itself. That means if the game is Windows-only and you have a Linux system, you can't download the game, which then means you can't download the soundtrack either. However, if the base game has an OS restriction, you can't install the base game on a computer with an excluded OS. Soundtracks are often marked as multiplatform, and rightly so, because they can be played on Linux, Mac, and Windows. Since they are considered DLC, you can't just download them without the base game. Originally posted by Quint the House Gecko:Sadly, Steam is stupid because it treats soundtracks as DLC.

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