I ditched ~15 years of Spotify after 1 day of vibecoding

I’ve been on Spotify since around 2011, and paying for it for most of that time. My actual music, though, has lived on my own Jellyfin server for a while. Don’t you miss actually owning your music? I do. I started to do it with my movies/shows a while ago, it was about time to do it with my music. The only thing I don’t love about it was the apps. Some look dated, some are missing features, some only exist on one platform. So I kept opening Spotify just because the app feels nice to use.

A day of vibecoding later, I cancelled my Spotify subscription. This is Spotifin: a free, open-source, Spotify-style music player that connects to your existing Jellyfin library. It aims to be your go-to player everywhere.

What it does

• 🌍 Everywhere: web, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux from a single Flutter codebase.
• ⚡ Instantly opens: it starts from your saved library and can play your downloads even without a connection.
• 🎤 Synced lyrics: pulled from Jellyfin and LRCLIB, following along as you listen.
• 🎲 Daily mixes: auto-generated from your tags and refreshed every day.
• 📡 Remote play: control another device or hand off playback mid-song without losing your place.
• ⬇️ Downtify integration: search music that isn’t in your library yet and add it in one click if you run a Downtify server (don’t sue me).

Try it

The web app is the best place to start: spotifin.app. You get your whole library and every feature, downloads included, on any device, with nothing to install.

If you’d rather run it natively, there are builds for iPhone/iPad, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux on the releases page.

Source code and more info: github.com/pablopunk/spotifin

Spotifin is licensed under the AGPL-3.0. If you have a Jellyfin library, I’d love to know how it holds up with your setup. I suggest you keep supporting the artists you like somehow. Downtify uses YouTube to download songs (from your own account), and I still keep my YouTube Premium subscription.