How to · Rekordbox

Organize your library in Rekordbox.

Rekordbox gives you playlists, folders, and colors to structure a collection by hand. Here is how to do it well, and how to organize by feel in a fraction of the time.

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Turn a flat collection into a library you can actually pull from.

Organizing in Rekordbox, step by step.

Rekordbox keeps your structure in playlists and folders rather than your operating system's folders. Build it inside the app so it travels to USB and CDJs.

Import your collection

In Collection, drag in your music folders or use File then Import. Let Rekordbox analyze the tracks so BPM, key, and waveforms are ready before you sort.

Create playlists and folders

Right-click the Playlists pane and choose Create New Folder for top-level groups, then Create New Playlist inside them. Keep one clear idea per playlist so it stays useful.

Color and sort

Assign track colors for a rough system (for example a color per energy level), then sort the list by BPM, key, or rating using the column headers to find tracks fast.

Use My Tag for detail

Open the My Tag panel and add tags for genre, mood, or situation so you can filter the collection down beyond what folders alone allow.

The catch

Every part of this is manual. Genre folders and colors do not tell you how a track feels or where it belongs in a night, so the system is only as good as the time you put into it.

Mood

Euphoric

Melancholic

Mysterious

Energy

Aggressive

Peaceful

Rave

Function

Afterhours

Club

Home

The faster way

Tag by feel, not by folder.

Vibes imports the same library and lets you organize by how a track actually feels, with on-device AI doing most of the tagging, then exports the whole structure back into Rekordbox.

See how it works

Build your own categories for energy, mood, and role instead of fighting genre folders

Auto-Tag suggests vibes from each track's sound and learns your taste as you go

Combinations turn tag overlaps into ready-made crates automatically

Export playlists, colors, and ratings straight back into Rekordbox

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.

Organize inside Rekordbox. It stores your structure in its own database so it carries to USB and CDJs. Operating-system folders do not travel and can break track links if you move files.

It works alongside it. You organize in Vibes by feel with AI help, then export the playlists, colors, and ratings back into Rekordbox, so you still perform on the gear you trust.

In Rekordbox you can approximate this with track colors and My Tag. Vibes is built for it: create unlimited categories for energy, mood, and role, and pull the exact feel a moment needs.

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