In the last few months, I've moved away from using Spotify and back to using my own music collection, largely
driven by tracks which I include in my playlists disappearing off the service due to licensing issues. Moving fully
back to local media has left to issues keeping my library in sync across devices, so I've begun using Jellyfin,
an open source media server to store my collection and make it available to all my devices. However, the default
web interface in Jellyfin did not provide the same efficiency I liked from Clementine, my music player I used locally.
Much like foobar2000, Clementine has a very efficient interface for the way in which I tend to listen to music - i.e.
rapidly creating a playlist of disparate tracks via search, listening to it for a few days or weeks, then making
a new collection. The same is not true for Jellyfin's web interface (and wasn't true for Spotify either). So I built my
own client to replicate that experience.
Preserve
Preserve is a web based media player frontend to a jellyfin server. It aims to
replicate the experience of using players like foobar2000 or Clementine with its two panel design allowing you to quickly
search tracks and assemble/order a playlist how you like, including full keyboard controls. It's fully open source, under GPLv2+.
Since it is a jellyfin client, you will first need to host
your music using a Jellyfin server, but once that is done you can use Preserve in your browser at preserveplayer.com
or install a desktop client from the Preserve Gitlab releases.
