MusicBee UPnP Plugin Help

The seven things MusicBee can publish

When a device browses MusicBee, the root it lands on can offer all of these, side by side:

  • Music — your main library, shaped however you like (see discovery paths below).
  • Filters — the filter tabs you already use across the top of MusicBee's main view (Music, ALL, FAV, a Jazz filter, a Classical filter, whatever you've set up) appear as entry points, mirroring how you already think about your library. Filters are read live from the same files MusicBee itself uses, so they stay in sync with no configuration.
  • Podcasts — your podcast subscriptions, each opening to its episodes, with subscription artwork carried through.
  • Audiobooks — MusicBee's Audiobooks category.
  • Radio — your saved internet-radio stations.
  • Inbox — MusicBee's Inbox of newly added, not-yet-filed tracks.
  • Playlists — your MusicBee playlists.

Because these come straight from MusicBee, they need no separate setup — subscribe to a podcast or add a station in MusicBee and it is reachable from the network the next time the device browses. Whether each one actually appears, and the shape it takes, is the job of the next feature.

By default, Filters and Playlists sit inside a tidy wrapper folder of their own. Whether each source actually appears, where it sits — including pinning the ones you reach for most high in the browse root, grouped with their own kind — and the shape it takes are all decided per node by the next feature.

Earlier versions of this help listed "no podcast root container" as a limitation. That is no longer true — podcasts are published like every other source.