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Rate every track by its energy.

DJ energy levels rate how hard a track hits the floor on a 1 to 10 scale, the one Mixed In Key popularized: 1 is beatless background music, 5 or 6 gets people dancing, 8 and up is peak time. None of rekordbox, Serato, or Traktor has an energy field of its own, so the number lives in a rating, a comment, or a playlist name, and you use it to shape a night from warm-up to peak and back down.

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Vibes with a track open below the library, waveform and analysis in view

Energy rides the waveform as its own layer, alongside beats, sections, and cues.

How it works.

Step 01Set a number

Select one track or a hundred, press E to open the Track Inspector, and type an energy value from 1 to 10. Press Enter or click away and it is stored, with no Save step: only title, artist, BPM, and key are staged and written back into the file's tags.

Step 02Check it against the curve

Open the waveform and the energy layer traces loudness end to end, with intro, buildup, drop, breakdown, and outro marked, so you can see where a track really peaks before you commit to a number.

Step 03Order the set

In Set Designer, Energy Flow sorts a chapter by tempo: ascending, descending, or an arc that peaks in the middle. On the two straight sorts, same-tempo ties go to the closest harmonic key. Then export the order.

Energy you can set, see, and sort by.

A number you control, a curve from the analysis, and a set that climbs the way you planned it.

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Your number

A value you set, not one guessed for you.

Energy sits next to the star rating in the Track Inspector as a plain 1 to 10 field. Set it on a single track or on a whole selection at once, with mixed values shown as mixed so a bulk edit never hides what you are overwriting.

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Analysis

See the shape before you rate it.

Every import is analyzed on your machine: an energy curve across the whole track, plus sections labeled intro, buildup, drop, breakdown, and outro. A track can average out flat and still hold a monster in its last two minutes, and the curve is where you catch that.

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Energy Flow
Ascendingslow→fast
Descendingfast→slow
Arcpeak in middle
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4 tracks
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Track 002 by Artist B

Track 002

Artist B

124
5B
Track 004 by Artist D

Track 004

Artist D

126
7A
Track 001 by Artist A

Track 001

Artist A

128
3A
Track 003 by Artist C

Track 003

Artist C

132
8A

Set Designer

Build the climb instead of hoping for it.

Drop a chapter of tracks on the canvas and sort it into the shape you want: slow to fast, fast to slow, or an arc that peaks in the middle. The two straight sorts break same-tempo ties toward the closest harmonic key, so the climb still mixes.

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Tags and export

Levels that travel to the booth.

The number stays in your library, so give energy a home your DJ app can read: tag tracks into an energy category, using the ready-made Energy Feel pack of Calm, Steady, Pushing, Intense, Explosive, and Afterglow, then export. Each level lands as its own playlist or crate, nested under the category name.

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Frequently asked questions

The honest answers, including the trade-offs.

Dance tracks are built in phrases of 32 beats, eight bars of four. The rule of 32 says you mix in, mix out, and change the energy on those boundaries, because the arrangement already turns there. Count from the first kick, watch where the drums drop away, and the transition lands with the track instead of across it. That is phrase mixing in one sentence.
Not a DJing system. The scale DJs actually use runs 1 to 10 and comes from Mixed In Key: 1 is beatless, 5 is where people start dancing, 7 is a party, 8 and up is a hands in the air drop. Some DJs collapse it into five or six named steps, because ten numbers are hard to apply the same way twice. Pick one scale and stay on it.
With energy, four repeat offenders: peaking in the first half hour and having nowhere left to go, jumping three levels in one transition, holding a single level so long the room stops noticing, and rating tracks by how much you like them instead of what they do to a floor. Planning the shape first fixes all four. Energy-based mixing covers the shapes.
Roughly 35 to 60, depending on how long you let each one run. Three hours at five minutes a track is 36; at three minutes it is 60. The count is a byproduct, not a target. What you actually plan is the shape, and shorter cuts at peak time buy you more energy changes per hour than long blends do.
It comes from songwriting and radio, where a track is expected to make its point in about three minutes. DJs borrow it as a pacing check: if a track has been running three minutes and is not building toward anything, it is time to move. Long blends are fine when the groove is the point, but a floor notices when nothing has changed in five minutes.
None of the three. The rekordbox track filter refines by My Tag, BPM, key, rating, and color. Serato's library columns and Smart Crate rules go as far as Comment and Grouping. Traktor's Smartlist filters include Comment, Comment2, and Rating. So the value has to ride in one of those fields, which is why tools like Mixed In Key write it into the file's tags.
The 1 to 10 number does not. It is stored in your Vibes library only, alongside ratings and vibes, while title, artist, BPM, and key are the fields written back into the file's tags. What travels is the structure: tag tracks into an energy category, then export, and every level arrives as its own playlist or crate under the category name in rekordbox, Serato, Traktor, or Engine DJ.

From a Vibes customer

The import worked perfectly. Have created several sets now and my life is so much easier
Danny

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Last reviewed June 2026.

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