Integration to Steam Music

Hi!
Since I'm a big fan of Spotify, I use it on a daily basis.  Most of the times, I'm in game, playing music through the regular Windows client. I thought it would be convinient for Spotify ti be accessed there, since the regular client takes a lot of processing power (for me, at least).
Thanks,
Marcus

"Pls gaben pls"-Everyone In all seriousness though, it really is a hassle for me to switch from fullscreen game to desktop to switch songs or lower the internal volume of the Spotify app on the desktop. For me at least, since I use Windows 8.1 I usually just double tap the windows key to bring me from the game to the fancy-schmancy "Metro" start screen, and then to my desktop.
But, there's a big problem with that.You see, for some reason, Spotify likes to be a meschiveious little leprechaun when I do that with some games and it will keep playing the music... but no window will show. Nothing, at all. Not in the taskbar, not in an actual window, and even when I try to relaunch it (even though it's still playing) nothing happens. To make matters worse, if I actually wanted to get my initial task of getting Spotify to cooperate and do my bidding of just switching playlists, I would have to fiddle around with it for a minute to make sure that it actually does so. But by then... I've been AWP'd and out of the round.
To me, just somehow integrating Steam Overlay's Music UI with Spotify-functionality just makes Spotify that much more awesome than it is now... not to mention actually reliable when playing a big hulking CPU-hog of a game like Planetside 2. But, I don't blame you guys for not give it to us. Valve is already tight-lipped as is, so that's not helping things along. Plus, you guys are still trying your best to give Spotify to entire countries, let alone gaming communities.
Stil, it would be awfully nice if you did. It'd probably give me a reason to actually pay for a Spotify subscription.

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