How to · Rekordbox

Auto-tag your tracks in Rekordbox.

Rekordbox has no automatic mood or energy tagging. Vibes fills that gap with on-device AI that learns your taste and exports labeled playlists straight back into Rekordbox.

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Vibe Sort view showing tracks being tagged by feel

Tag tracks by energy and mood in Vibe Sort, then export organized playlists back to Rekordbox.

Auto-tag your tracks in Rekordbox, step by step.

Rekordbox does not have automated mood or energy tagging built in. The closest native workflow is to manually assign MyTags, ratings, or comments to each track, then use those to filter your collection.

Open your collection in Rekordbox

Launch Rekordbox and navigate to your Collection in the left panel. Make sure your tracks are analyzed so BPM and key data are available. This gives you the metadata foundation you will build on manually.

Create MyTags for energy and mood

In Rekordbox, open the MyTag pane by clicking the tag icon on the right side of the screen. You will see up to 4 categories. The three presets are Genre, Components, and Situation, and there is one blank group for your own use. Click a category or tag name to rename it. You can add or remove individual tag values within each category. Rekordbox caps you at 4 categories total (each holding up to 50 tags), so plan your taxonomy before you start tagging.

Assign tags to tracks

Select one or more tracks in your collection, then tick the desired tag in the MyTag pane on the right. Ticking a tag while multiple tracks are selected applies it to all of them at once, which makes bulk tagging by genre or BPM range practical. There is no AI or automatic suggestion, so every label still requires a manual decision.

Use Intelligent Playlists or filters to surface tagged tracks

Once tracks are tagged, use the search and filter bar to narrow your collection by MyTag values, or build Intelligent Playlists (the official Rekordbox name, sometimes informally called Smart Playlists) based on those tags. Right-click in the Playlists section and choose 'Create new Intelligent Playlist', then set your criteria including My Tag, BPM, key, and more. This lets you pull up, for example, all High Energy tracks in a particular BPM range before a set. MyTag data is also exported to USB drives so you can filter by tag directly on CDJ-3000s and compatible XDJ hardware.

The catch

Rekordbox has no automated or AI-assisted tagging: every energy or mood label must be assigned manually. However, multi-selecting tracks and ticking a tag in the MyTag pane applies it to all selected tracks at once, so batch-by-selection is possible even if batch-by-rule is not.

Afterhours

Mysterious

Introspective

Evolving

The faster way

Let AI tag your Rekordbox library by feel.

Vibes imports your Rekordbox library, runs on-device AI to suggest energy and mood tags for every track, and writes the results back into Rekordbox as ready-to-use playlists. No cloud, no subscription per-use, and it learns your taste the more you tag.

See how it works

On-device AI (CLAP audio embeddings) suggests vibes for untagged tracks based on the actual audio, not just metadata.

The model trains on your own tagging decisions, so suggestions improve and reflect your personal taste over time.

Combinations auto-detects tracks that share multiple vibes and turns the overlaps into crates, ready to load.

Export writes labeled playlists directly into Rekordbox's database, so your tags appear immediately without any manual import step.

Organize in Vibes, export to Rekordbox.

Your playlists, tags, ratings, and cue points travel back to the gear you play on, so nothing you do in Vibes is locked away.

Track 001

Artist A

128

Afterhours

Mysterious

Introspective

Track 002

Artist B

124

Cozy Floor

Peaceful

Home

Track 003

Artist C

132

Rave

Aggressive

Festival

Build & Release

Playlists

Vibes

Mood

Aggressive

Euphoric

Melancholic

Mysterious

Peaceful

Playful

Tense

Function

Arrangement

Sets

Club Night 12/28

NYE Closing Set

Rooftop 01/04

Frequently asked questions

The honest answers, including the trade-offs.

Vibes is a prep and library tool, not a replacement for Rekordbox. You still perform on Rekordbox. What Vibes replaces is the manual tagging step: it imports your library, suggests and applies energy and mood tags using on-device AI, then exports those labels back into Rekordbox as playlists. Your performance workflow stays exactly the same.

No. Vibes runs the AI model entirely on your machine using CLAP audio embeddings. Your audio files never leave your computer, and no account or internet connection is required for tagging.

Vibes writes directly into Rekordbox's database. After export you will find a playlist folder for each vibe you have set up, populated with the tracks that carry that tag. You can use these playlists in Rekordbox exactly like any other playlist when building sets or browsing your collection.

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