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After leaving Spotify, the author experimented with various music players, ultimately setting up Jellyfin as a self-hosted solution. They explored traditional music players like Winamp and VLC, trialed foobar2000, and even built a custom web music player. The journey ended with Jellyfin, which offers comprehensive features for local and offline music playback. The author also notes the ease of setting up a home server for self-hosting Jellyfin, along with other applications.

I left Spotify. What happened next?

<p>The article only covers playing existing music files, not how to get new music or replace Spotify’s catalog. Focus on technical solutions for personal libraries, not obtaining content.</p>


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<p>Check it out <a href="https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music</a></p>
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