Built a local music player for myself after getting annoyed with VLC — runs in your browser

Been sitting on a folder of MP3s and WMAs for years with no good way to browse them. VLC works but it’s ugly and
clunky. Windows Media Player is basically dead. Spotify doesn’t play local files the way I want.

So I built Aria — a local music player th…


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Been sitting on a folder of MP3s and WMAs for years with no good way to browse them. VLC works but it's ugly and
clunky. Windows Media Player is basically dead. Spotify doesn't play local files the way I want.

So I built Aria — a local music player that runs as a tiny web server on your machine. Open your browser, your whole
library is there.

It's free, open source, runs fully local, nothing leaves your machine, no account, no subscription.
Landing page: https://arianova613.github.io/aria
GitHub: https://github.com/AriaNova613/aria
Would love any feedback. Still early days.


This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by AriaNova613


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