MBXHub

by HALRAD Research

MBXHub

The bridge to everything else.

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

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Dashboard (v0.5.5.1)

OVERLAY - HUD: Browse, Playing, Queue

Everything else

What is MBXHub?

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.

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.

Casting from the desktop

Casting from a phone

Listen Here

Three outputs. Play out the music over your normal playback path over the 'big speakers', select the tracks to be played by the device in your hand, or cast them to a speaker on the network.

ARiA

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

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.

REST / WebSockets

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

Charms

Buttons on the charm bar. Each opens a web app, calls the hub, or reaches a device on the network. All of them ship on.

Browse Slices Tree Explore History Projector Dashboard Play Now Playing Player AutoQ Workbench Stations Mixer WiiM Fosi Matrix Settings Theme ARiA

What each one does, and how to write your own →

MBXHub Shell

A standalone EXE with a Windows app identity (AUMID HALRAD.MBXHub). The SMTC bridge puts MBXHub’s now-playing in the Windows media flyout, on the lock screen and over Bluetooth AVRCP — branded as MBXHub, not as a generic browser tab. It lives in the system tray: click to open MusicBee, retarget SMTC to another MBXHub on the network, turn the bridge on or off, or reconnect after a network blip. It reconnects to MusicBee on its own.

It also carries the overlay — always-available desktop surfaces, each a hotkey away, sitting over whatever you are doing. The HUD (Ctrl+Shift+M) is playing, browsing and the queue; the Charm Bar (Ctrl+Alt+B) is every charm as its own window. Either can drive a local hub or a remote one, so the machine playing the music does not have to be the machine you are working on.

More about the Shell →

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Project background at halrad.com/mbxhub