About Us

Note Block World is the largest public community centered around Minecraft note blocks, developed by the same folks who brought you Note Block Studio. It lets you discover, share and listen to note block music more easily than ever!

History

After maintaining Note Block Studio for over four years, we noticed one of the community's most frequent requests was for a place to share and browse note block music created with the app: there simply wasn't any good one!

The idea for a song-sharing social website was baking in our minds for over four years, but only started to take shape around late 2023, as we gained experience in web development and started to grasp its viability. After a few months of planning plus a whole year in development, it finally came into reality. We're hugely proud to bring Note Block World to you!

With openness as one of our core premises and as a way to give back to our incredible community, we're happy to make this website's entire source code publicly available! You're free to use it for your own purposes under the GNU Affero General Public License (GNU AGPL 3.0).

Team

Bentroen

Software tinkerer with eight years of experience, leads the website's development. Playing Minecraft led him to discover his greatest passions: music, programming, and open-source. He's found maintaining Note Block Studio to be the perfect way to combine these interests!

tomast1337

Bentroen's college classmate, took a huge part in the website's development, having been responsible for much of the backend functionality. His interests range from web development to graphics computing, and he's always eager to work on new and interesting projects.

encode42

Interested in development, music and design, developed nbs.js, an open-source library for working with NBS files, which powers this website and shortened its development by many months. As our community manager, encode also provides great guidance, helping us deal with challenging aspects of moderating a large community, and steering strategic decisions on the future of the project.

Acknowledgments

Note Block World is made possible by our amazing community of note block enthusiasts, musicians, and supporters — especially our financial contributors, who allowed us to launch this website and keep it up to this day. Thank you for staying with us! 💚🎶