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Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

When I stopped using Spotify I tried a few different solutions until I found the perfect replacement for me. If you want the tl;dr: I now use Jellyfin. But if you want to know how I got here, follow me through each step of the way.

foobar2000's Midnight theme that probably took hundreds of hours to make.Since I was feeling adventurous and I wanted an excuse to learn htmx, I ended up building a rudimentary web music player that worked surprisingly well. I knew I could take the project to the next level and add some sort of “download to listen offline” feature, but the browser storage is not enough for that, so I would had to bundle the website into a “proper app”. A screenshot of my Jellyfin music library in the browserIn the past few months, the world started shifting significantly, so I wanted to give another step in my journey of digital autonomy.

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