What is MBXHub?

The MBXHub web app on a phone — search and the Recently Added picker on top, the Albums, Artists, Genres, Playlists, Podcasts, Radio, Tracks, Videos and Moods tabs, an album grid, and the now playing bar with transport along the bottom

Click to close The MBXHub web app on a phone — search and the Recently Added picker on top, the Albums, Artists, Genres, Playlists, Podcasts, Radio, Tracks, Videos and Moods tabs, an album grid, and the now playing bar with transport along the bottom

Web application

use it out of the box to browse, play, search, Queue from your phone, tablet, or desktop — in any browser on any platform.

The dashboard

Click to close The AutoQ Workbench floating over MusicBee — mood channel faders, the valence-arousal plot and the station list

AutoQ

Use Truedat to scan your library and select tracks based on musical properties. Stations are where you create your own stream influenced by your own tastes.

The audio features · AutoQ

Listen Here

Send the music to the device in your hand — open a browser, tap the headphone on any track, and it plays there.

Listen Here

The MBXCast panel docked in MusicBee: the cast button lit, the speaker named Phantom Ultimate 98 dB System, its volume slider and the settings icon

The MBXCast panel in MusicBee

The HUD header while casting: the speaker’s volume reading 11% with the speaker’s name beside it, the Listen Here headphones, and the Cast button lit blue

The same cast from the HUD

Click to close The MBXCast panel in MusicBee, full size

Click to close The HUD header while casting, full size

MBXCast

Cast to a speaker on the network — drive it from MusicBee, the HUD, or any phone in the house.

MBXCast · What it does

ARiA

drives the host machine from any device: keystrokes, mouse, launching an app.

ARiA reference · What it does

Click to close The MBXHub charm bar — Browse, Now Playing, Player, Mixer and device charms side by side

Charms

provides unified volume, source, and configuration of devices. WiiM and Fosi devices supported; Devialet Phantom and Phantom Ultimate speakers are controlled through the Mixer charm's endpoint fader — volume, mute and source.

Every charm that ships

REST / WebSockets

the engine underneath all of it, provides the complete REST API, push and subscribe notifications.

API reference · How it works

Charms

A charm is a button on the charm bar. Press one and it opens a page, does something in MusicBee, or controls a device on your network.

These are the charms that come with MBXHub. They are all on to start with — hide the ones you don’t need, or change their order, in settings.

MBXHub Shell

A small Windows app that runs alongside MusicBee. It puts what’s playing in Windows’ own media controls, on the lock screen and on Bluetooth devices that show the track, under the MBXHub name. It sits in the system tray: open MusicBee from there, switch to another MBXHub on your network, or reconnect.

It also turns your desktop into a web viewer, overlaid on whatever you are doing, one key press away: the HUD (Ctrl+Shift+M) for transport, browsing and the queue, and the Charm Bar (Ctrl+Alt+B) for every charm in its own window. Either one controls this PC or another MBXHub in the house.

Cast Control

Keep your network speaker within reach. Cast Control shows the device, track and artist, with play/pause, previous, next, stop, seeking and volume controls right in the HUD.

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