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. I started gathering all my music files ( mp3 , or flac ) in my computer, and from there I wanted to just listen to them the old way. The first issue I encountered was that none of the available music players were any good. Winamp 2 default Base Skin We all love the nostalgic look of Winamp in screenshots, but in reality those players are very limited. They work (kinda) okay for playing a single album, but I struggle to browse my library or create a playlist with them. I tried tons of programs, but none of them satisfied me. I guess music players left the zeitgeist so the technology of playing files locally didn’t improve much lately. For a few days, I went along with the good old VLC player, but I was surprised to find how bad it is at handling flac files ... Read full article.