diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index cc92494..cdb20ba 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@
 [submodule "build/3rdparty/jwt-cpp"]
 	path = build/3rdparty/jwt-cpp
 	url = https://github.com/Thalhammer/jwt-cpp
-[submodule "3rdparty/jwt-cpp"]
-	path = 3rdparty/jwt-cpp
-	url = https://github.com/Thalhammer/jwt-cpp
 [submodule "3rdparty/ormpp"]
 	path = 3rdparty/ormpp
 	url = https://github.com/qicosmos/ormpp
diff --git a/3rdparty/jwt-cpp b/3rdparty/jwt-cpp
deleted file mode 160000
index 65b632b..0000000
--- a/3rdparty/jwt-cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 65b632b674da7fcc189adf7336c652108188aa29
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 33a8506..e738439 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -90,19 +90,11 @@ set (BCRYPTLIB
     ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/3rdparty/libbcrypt
 )
 
-set(JWT_CPP_INCLUDE
-    ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/3rdparty/jwt-cpp/include
-)
-
-
-include(${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/conanbuildinfo.cmake)
-conan_basic_setup()
 
 #find_library(BCRYPT bcrypt ${BCRYPTLIB})
 
-include_directories(include ${CPR_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${BCRYPTLIB})
+include_directories(include ${BCRYPTLIB})
 
-add_subdirectory(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/3rdparty/cpr)
 add_subdirectory(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/3rdparty/oatpp)
 
 add_library(bcrypt STATIC IMPORTED)
@@ -117,7 +109,13 @@ configure_file(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/database.json ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/bin
 configure_file(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/paths.json ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/bin/paths.json COPYONLY)
 configure_file(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/Images/Stock/CoverArt.png ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/bin/CoverArt.png COPYONLY)
 
+find_path(JWT_CPP_INCLUDE_DIRS "jwt-cpp/base.h")
+
+find_package(nlohmann_json CONFIG REQUIRED)
+find_package(cpr CONFIG REQUIRED)
+
 add_executable(icarus ${SOURCES} ${HEADERS})
 
-target_include_directories(icarus PUBLIC ${JWT_CPP_INCLUDE})
-target_link_libraries(icarus "-lstdc++fs" oatpp tag mysqlclient ${CONAN_LIBS} ${CPR_LIBRARIES} bcrypt)
+
+target_include_directories(icarus PRIVATE ${JWT_CPP_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+target_link_libraries(icarus PRIVATE "-lstdc++fs" oatpp tag mysqlclient nlohmann_json nlohmann_json::nlohmann_json cpr bcrypt)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d2b848f..6b1e88c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ One can interface with Icarus the music server either by:
 * [cpr](https://www.github.com/whoshuu/cpr)
 * [TagLib](https://github.com/taglib/taglib)
 * [jwt-cpp](https://github.com/Thalhammer/jwt-cpp)
+* libmysql
 * [libbcrypt](https://github.com/rg3/libbcrypt)
 * [oatpp](https://github.com/oatpp/oatpp)
 
@@ -149,14 +150,19 @@ From this point the database has been successfully created. Metadata and song fi
 ## Building and Running
 ```
 git clone --recursive https://github.com/kdeng00/icarus
-cd 3rdparty/libbcrypt/
+
+cd icarus/3rdparty/vcpkg
+./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh
+./vcpkg install nlohmann-json cpr taglib jwt-cpp
+
+cd ../3rdparty/libbcrypt/
 make
+
 cd ../..
 mkdir build
 cd build
-conan install ..
 cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -DUSE_SYSTEM_CURL=ON -DBUILD_CPR_TESTS=OFF -DOATPP_BUILD_TESTS=OFF
-make
+cmake --build .
 bin/icarus
 ```
 Runs the server on localhost port 5002
diff --git a/conanfile.txt b/conanfile.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 579327d..0000000
--- a/conanfile.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-[requires]
-jsonformoderncpp/3.7.3@vthiery/stable
-
-[generators]
-cmake
diff --git a/src/manager/TokenManager.cpp b/src/manager/TokenManager.cpp
index bff3121..e56ea78 100644
--- a/src/manager/TokenManager.cpp
+++ b/src/manager/TokenManager.cpp
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 #include <iostream>
 #include <iterator>
 #include <fstream>
-#include <filesystem>
 #include <string>
 #include <string_view>
 #include <sstream>
@@ -11,8 +10,6 @@
 
 #include "manager/DirectoryManager.h"
 
-namespace fs = std::filesystem;
-
 namespace manager {
     model::Token TokenManager::retrieveToken(const model::BinaryPath& bConf) {
 		auto cred = parseAuthCredentials(bConf);
@@ -93,7 +90,9 @@ namespace manager {
 
 
     cpr::Response TokenManager::sendRequest(std::string_view uri, nlohmann::json& obj) {
-		auto resp = cpr::Post(cpr::Url{uri}, cpr::Body{obj.dump()},
+		const std::string uriString(uri.begin(), uri.end());
+
+		auto resp = cpr::Post(cpr::Url(uriString), cpr::Body{obj.dump()},
                           cpr::Header{{"Content-type", "application/json"}, 
                                       {"Connection", "keep-alive"}});