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Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative by Ziggy_Zaggy on Thursday April 17, 2025 @01:03AM (#43713276)
With all the SWE in the mix, why not just roll your own media player...? It's not THAT hard. Same for movie player btw (and one solution can do both ofc).

HTML spec for media is pretty amazing these days, no real excuses outside of time.

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Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative by TJSomething on Thursday April 17, 2025 @02:48AM (#43713813)
That's been sitting on my ideas list for over a decade, because I've wanted Pandora that runs locally from my collection. But I'm not sure I'll realistically ever get to it.
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Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative by solumunus on Thursday April 17, 2025 @01:06AM (#43713287)
Why roll your own media player? The reasons not to seem obvious.
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Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative by chillfox on Thursday April 17, 2025 @11:48AM (#43718584)
Time is pretty much the reason.
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