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Set up Intelligent Playlists in Rekordbox.

Intelligent Playlists update themselves from rules, so a crate stays current as your library grows. Here is how to build them, and how to give them better data to work with.

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A rule-based playlist organizing a library

Crates that maintain themselves from your own rules.

Building an Intelligent Playlist.

An Intelligent Playlist is a rule-based crate. You define conditions and Rekordbox keeps it populated automatically.

Create the playlist

Right-click anywhere in the Playlists section and choose Create New Intelligent Playlist to open the rule builder dialog, where you can enter a name for the playlist.

Add your rules

Set conditions on fields like BPM, Key, Genre, Rating, My Tag, or Date Added, and use the Match all of the following Rules checkbox to require every condition (checked) or any condition (unchecked).

Combine for precision

Stack rules to express a real idea, for example BPM between 122 and 126, Key equals 9A, and My Tag contains Peak. Note that the Key condition filters by a specific key value - there is no native 'compatible keys' or harmonic filter in the rule builder.

Let it maintain itself

As you add and tag new tracks, they flow into the playlist automatically, so the crate is always current without manual upkeep.

The catch

An Intelligent Playlist is only as smart as the metadata behind it. If your tracks are not tagged for energy, mood, or role, the rules have little to work with.

Mood

Euphoric

Melancholic

Mysterious

Energy

Aggressive

Peaceful

Rave

Function

Afterhours

Club

Home

The faster way

Feed the rules better data.

Vibes auto-tags energy, mood, and role and detects tag overlaps as Combinations, so the rule-based crates you build in Rekordbox finally have rich data to filter on.

See how it works

Auto-Tag fills in the energy, mood, and role data rules depend on

Combinations surface useful overlaps as ready-made crates

Build your taxonomy once and reuse it everywhere

Export tags and crates back into Rekordbox for Intelligent Playlists

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.

It is a playlist defined by rules rather than a hand-picked list. You set conditions like BPM range, key, or tag, and Rekordbox keeps the playlist populated with matching tracks automatically.

Usually because the underlying tags are thin. Rules can only filter on data that exists. Tagging energy, mood, and role, which Vibes can auto-suggest, makes the rules far more powerful.

Yes. Vibes auto-tags from the audio and exports the tags back into Rekordbox, so your Intelligent Playlist rules have real energy, mood, and role data to filter on.

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