Partners

MusicBee

MBXHub is a plugin for MusicBee, written by Steven Mayall. MusicBee is the foundation everything here is built on.

MBXHub is built on MusicBee's published plugin API: MusicBee API for developers, including the MusicBeeInterface.cs SDK file.

MusicBee itself is not open source; it is the foundation, credited above.

Partners

MBXHub is built to be extended. This is where the people building on it are credited.

IKANDY

IKANDY is a music visualizer for Windows 10 and 11: ShaderToy-style shaders, WebGPU scenes, and MilkDrop presets driven by the audio on your machine. With the MBXHub plugin installed, IKANDY connects to MusicBee over localhost and follows it directly: now playing and artwork, play, pause, skip and seek, playlists you can browse and start from inside the visuals, and MusicBee's own shuffle and repeat modes. Nothing to sign into, nothing leaves the machine. IKANDY is on Steam, with a free tier and an optional Pro upgrade.

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• Steam store
• Website
• MusicBee setup guide
• Troubleshooting for MusicBee
• Credits — MBXHub is listed there

Open source

MBXHub ships code released under open-source licenses, and publishes some of its own, MBXHub itself is not open source. This list is drawn from the SBOMs every build produces (SBOM-MBXHub.dll.md, SBOM-MBXHub.exe.md, SBOM-mbxutil.md, in the download bundle).

Ours

• Firebug — Apache-2.0. Windows Firewall rules, port picking, and SsdpCore (SSDP, WS-Discovery, mDNS). Inside MBXHub it is the network setup and the device scan.
• Truedat — MIT. The mood and audio-feature extractor that writes mbxmoods.json for AutoQ.
• MBXHub samples — MIT. Charms, pages, a Lyrion plugin and an MCP server, each built from llms.txt alone.
• Huddle — the multi-session orchestrator MBXHub is built with.

What we build on

• Essentia — AGPL-3.0. The audio analysis behind Truedat, not included with MBXHub.
• FFmpeg — decoding and called by Truedat.
• QRCoder — MIT. provides the QR join codes.
• System.Text.Json — MIT. Settings, API requests, charm manifests.
• Microsoft.Web.WebView2 — BSD-3-Clause. The desktop windows: HUD, Charm Bar, charm windows.
• ILRepack — MIT. Build only; merges the plugin into one DLL.
• Archivo — SIL OFL 1.1. The face the name in the mark was outlined from.

Brand assets

The MBXHub mark and palette, for anyone writing about or building on MBXHub.

Share MBXHub

A ready-made card — the mark, one paragraph, and the links that matter. Use it as is.

MBXHub by Halrad LLC

MBXHub lets you browse, share, and control playback of your music from other applications, devices, and platforms.

get MusicBee. Plug-in Page | forum support

The same card as HTML, pointing at the assets on this site:

<div class="share-card">
    <img src="https://mbxhub.com/assets/mbxhub-512.png" alt="" width="64" height="64">
    <div>
        <p><a href="https://mbxhub.com/">MBXHub</a> by <a href="https://halrad.com">Halrad LLC</a></p>
        <p>MBXHub lets you browse, share, and control playback of your music from other applications, devices, and platforms.</p>
        <p>get <a href="https://getmusicbee.com/">MusicBee</a>. <a href="https://getmusicbee.com/addons/plugins/568/mbxhub-the-bridge-to-everything-else/">Plug-in Page</a> | <a href="https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=43957">forum support</a></p>
    </div>
</div>

The mark

• mbxhub.svg — the static vector, letters as paths, no font needed. The one to share.
• mbxhub-512.png — the tile, 512×512.
• mbxhub-animated.svg — the same mark with the wingbeat, for a hero or a splash. Mastheads use the static one.

Palette: navy #0E1B33, gold #E8A317, cyan #3FC9D6. The product is MBXHub, one word.