MBXHub

by HALRAD Research

Datasheet

MBXHub is the "bridge to everything else" for MusicBee — software that lets you browse, share, and control playback of your music from other applications, devices, and platforms.

What is MBXHub?

MBXHub is a MusicBee plugin with a companion desktop shell that turns your MusicBee music library into a fully network-accessible, browser-based media hub with a REST API, WebSocket events, and built-in controls for any device on your local network.

Six products behind one surface

  1. 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.
  2. AutoQ - Music 'Mood' Classification — 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.
  3. "Listen Here" - Streamer — you can choose to play out the music over your normal playback path over the 'big speakers' or select the tracks to be played by the device in your hand.
  4. ARiA - Automated Remote Input — drives the host machine from any device: keystrokes, mouse, launching an app.
  5. Charms - Application Host - Device Proxy — 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.
  6. REST / WebSockets — the engine underneath all of it, provides the complete REST API, push and subscribe notifications.

Core Purpose

MBXHub extends MusicBee beyond a single desktop machine, letting you:

Key Features

How It Works

Use Cases

In short, MBXHub is the “bridge to everything else” for MusicBee — a modern, open-protocol way to make your music library accessible, controllable, and integratable across devices and platforms.

Why MBXHub?

MusicBee is a powerful desktop music player, but it's trapped on a single machine. MBXHub breaks it free - enabling control from any device, integration with any system, and access from anywhere on your local network.

Easy to Configure

The Dashboard adapts to your setup. Scale it for a phone or a living room TV, pick your theme, choose which panels to show, and drag to reorder. All from MBXHub Settings.

QR Connect

Tap the QR icon to share the dashboard with any device. Guests scan to connect instantly - no URL typing needed.

Scaling

Built-in zoom levels let the dashboard fill a phone screen or a living room TV. Pick the size that fits your display.

Layout Control

Show or hide any panel. Drag to reorder. Set how many panels stay visible vs. collapsible. Seven configurable sections.

QR Connect

Dashboard Settings

BYOWA - Bring Your Own Web App — MBXHub serves HTML. Build your own player UI that calls the REST API.

Requirements

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