MusicBee Remote

MusicBee Remote lets you control MusicBee on your computer over Wi-Fi from your Android device.

This is a third-party application and is not affiliated in any way with MusicBee or Steven Mayall.

The store listing uses artwork by ProleteR (http://dustedwax.org/dwk123.html), licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0.

Help, setup instructions, and the companion plugin are available at https://mbrc.kelsos.net.

Both the app and the plugin are open source under the GPLv3 License:

• App: https://github.com/musicbeeremote/mbrc

• Plugin: https://github.com/musicbeeremote/mbrc-plugin

Logo concept by Jordan Georgiadis. Logo refinement, promotional graphics, and a large part of the UI and assets by Tasos Papazoglou-Chalikias.

The companion plugin requires MusicBee v3.0 or later. MusicBee Remote requires Android 6.0 or later and a Wi-Fi connection to your computer.

Features

• Modern Jetpack Compose UI with light and dark themes

• Play, pause, skip, seek, and volume control, including hardware buttons

• Now Playing screen with album art, progress, and composer info

• Track details panel with extended metadata (genre, bitrate, file info, play stats)

• Queue management: reorder, remove, search, and jump to any track

• Library browsing by genres, artists, albums, and tracks, with sorting and album grid

• Play all / shuffle all for any library selection

• Go to album / go to artist from the player and queue

• Playlist browsing with folder navigation

• Radio station playback

• Lyrics display with composer header

• Star ratings with half-star and bomb support, plus Last.fm love/ban and scrobble toggle

• Resizable home screen widgets

• Lock screen and headset media controls

• Auto pause or volume reduction on incoming calls

• Library metadata sync in the background with progress notifications