What MusicBee UPnP Plugin is for

An open-source plugin for MusicBee that connects your library to the UPnP/DLNA devices on your home network — phones, smart TVs, hi-fi streamers, networked speakers — with no cloud and no login. It is a fork of Steven Mayall's original UPnP plugin, rebuilt around making a big, varied library pleasant to browse from another device.

Two things set this fork apart from an ordinary UPnP server, and they are the reason to choose it:

• It publishes the whole of MusicBee — not just "Music." Your Filters, Podcasts, Audiobooks, Radio stations, the Inbox and your Playlists all appear as their own browsable containers on the other device, alongside the music. Most servers show a flat music library and nothing else.
• Every one of those nodes can be shown, hidden, and shaped individually. You decide which nodes a device sees, and you give each one its own discovery path — the route you drill down through it (Album Artist → Album → Tracks, a flat track list, by Genre, by Year…). A 300,000-track library ends up browsing like a well-organised one instead of a flat data dump.

Underneath those two headline ideas, the plugin is organised around one structural fact: MusicBee can play three different network roles, and every screen in the settings dialog belongs to one of them. Get the three roles straight and the rest of the dialog explains itself:

• Server — other devices browse the MusicBee library and pull tracks from it. This is where the two headline features above live.
• Renderer — MusicBee becomes a target other apps can play to, like a network speaker.
• Control point — MusicBee plays its own audio out to a remote speaker or streamer.

You can use one role or all three. Turn on only what you need. Throughout this guide, each setting is explained right beside the feature it belongs to — there is no separate "settings" list to cross-reference.