Organize your library in Rekordbox.

Inside Rekordbox. Organise music in Rekordbox itself rather than in Finder or Explorer folders: the app keeps your structure in its own database, so it travels with a USB stick and shows up on CDJs. Operating-system folders do not travel, and moving or renaming files on disk can break the links Rekordbox uses to find them.

Right-click the Playlists pane, create a folder for each broad group, then add playlists inside it with one clear idea each: a night, a room, an energy level, or a mood. Keep the tree shallow so you can still find things on a CDJ screen. Use Intelligent Playlists for anything rule-based, like a BPM range or a My Tag, and keep manual playlists for sets you curate track by track.

It works alongside it. Vibes imports the same library and lets you organize by how a track actually feels, with on-device AI doing most of the tagging. You then export the playlists, comment tags, and ratings back into Rekordbox, and from there they travel to USB and CDJs the same way they always did, so you still perform on the gear you trust.

In Rekordbox you can approximate this with track colors and My Tag, though they stay separate systems you keep aligned by hand. Vibes is built for it: create unlimited categories for energy, mood, and role instead of fighting genre folders, and pull the exact feel a moment needs. Combinations turn overlaps between those tags into ready-made crates.

On CDJs, only if you turn on the option in Preferences under Advanced, on the Browse tab, that writes My Tags into the Comments column. And know their limit: the rekordbox xml format has no My Tag field, so tags live inside Rekordbox's own database rather than traveling to other software through xml.