---
license: other
license_name: minimax-music3-community
license_link: https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3
base_model: MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3
library_name: mlx
pipeline_tag: text-to-audio
tags:
  - mlx
  - apple-silicon
  - music-generation
  - 8-bit
---

# MiniMax Music 3 — MLX 8-bit

8-bit quantized Linear layers (`group_size=64`) of [MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3) for [mikolaj92/minimax-music3-mlx](https://github.com/mikolaj92/minimax-music3-mlx). Vocoder and condition encoder stay bf16.

```bash
hf download mikoy92/MiniMax-Music3-MLX-8bit --local-dir ./weights/mlx-8bit
python -m minimax_music3_mlx.generate --weights ./weights/mlx-8bit \
  --lyrics $'[verse]\n...\n[chorus]\n...' --prompt "..." --duration 30 --steps 30 --output song.wav
```

Weights remain under the [MiniMax-Music3 Community License](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3).