Jukebox is crafted from eight wood planks (any species) arranged in a U-shape on the crafting grid with one diamond in the centre slot — a deceptively expensive recipe given the block's purely cosmetic role. Right-clicking with a music disc inserts the disc and starts playback; the disc rotates visibly on the top face during playback. Right-clicking again ejects the disc as a free item, ready to be played elsewhere or stored.

The block also emits a comparator-readable redstone signal corresponding to which disc is playing — useful for sequenced contraptions like automatic dance floors that change lighting based on the current track. Music discs themselves are obtained from creeper-on-skeleton kills (skeletons shoot a creeper with their arrows, and the resulting creeper death drops a random disc), from buried treasure, or from ancient city loot chests. Some rare discs are exclusive to specific loot pools and represent end-game collectibles for completionists.