MusicBee Remote

Konstantinos Paparas

About this app

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

Ratings and reviews

Great app, ways it can be better imo -There is no way to "shuffle all" music. Not even for a specific artist. You queue up the artist with shuffle enabled and it just plays the albums back to back. -Can't to see the actual queue, much less edit it. -The layout could be a bit better. For example, chosing the categories in the Library (or at least being able to change their order), or changing the sort parameters in Tracks (by artist, by album, title, etc) But hey, still works great!

When I go to sync the app it says the library metadata sync was incomplete or failed completely. This might result in queuing not work..." I can't even get my music on it! EDIT: got everything set up and I cannot praise enough the support that I received. Thank you so much. This app and it's developer are great.

Despite this app not being maintained, it does the basic things I want (1) manipulate my current play queue in musicbee (2) browse lightly for new things to add. IMO it shouldn't be thought of as an android browser for musicbee (I assume if you are using this in 2025 yours is customized ridiculously like mine. Is there anything on android that could replicate that?). It is exactly as advertised: a remote for when I've queued things up on the desktop program and want to make a small change.

What’s new

- Fixes an issue where the last playing track information would not properly persist.
- Fixes an issue where pressing the up volume button once would decrease the volume.
- Fixes a crash when attempting to send debug logs via the Feedback screen.
- Fixes an issue that would cut the album title when in the album library tab.
- Fixes an issue that would fail to properly sync album covers after the first sync.