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Use My Tag in Rekordbox.

My Tag lets you label tracks beyond genre so you can filter your library by mood and situation. Here is how to use it well, and how to stop tagging one track at a time.

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Using My Tag in Rekordbox.

My Tag is Rekordbox's built-in tagging panel. It ships with 4 preset category slots (Genre, Components, Situation, and one blank) and lets you rename those slots and fill each with up to 50 custom tags to match how you think about music. You cannot add additional categories beyond the 4 provided.

Open the My Tag panel

Click the My Tag icon on the right side of the browser to reveal the tag pane next to the track list. You can also go to View > Show My Tag.

Design your categories

Rekordbox gives you exactly 4 category slots: Genre, Components, Situation, and one blank. Rename any slot and add the specific tags you want under each, up to 50 tags per category. You cannot add new categories beyond these 4 slots.

Apply tags as you listen

Select a track and click the tags that fit. Tags are saved to Rekordbox's library database (not written into the audio file itself). When you export to USB, your My Tag data travels with the export so you can filter by tags on CDJs and XDJs.

Feed Intelligent Playlists

Once tracks are tagged, build an Intelligent Playlist with My Tag rules so a crate like Peak plus Vocal maintains itself automatically.

The catch

My Tag is powerful but slow: you are constrained to 4 categories total, you design the full taxonomy within those slots yourself, and you apply every tag by hand, one track at a time, across the entire library.

Auto-tag learns from vibes you picked. For newer vibes, it can still make a name-based guess.

Ready

5 learned3 guessing

Afterhours61

Euphoric48

Club34

Mysterious27

Rave22

Sectionalguess

Sustainedguess

Tenseguess

Learned uses tagged tracks and is more accurate. Guessing uses the vibe name, so it still works but is less accurate.

The faster way

Let AI do the first pass.

Vibes auto-tags tracks from their actual sound and learns your taste as you correct it, so the library gets organized in a fraction of the clicks, then exports back into Rekordbox.

See how it works

Auto-Tag suggests vibes straight from a track's sound, on your machine

The model sharpens the more you tag, so it learns your taste

Vibe Sort shows one track at a time for fast keyboard tagging

Export your tags back to Rekordbox as playlists and crates

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.

Yes. My Tags are written to the tracks and exported to USB, so you can filter by them on CDJ players that support it, not just inside Rekordbox on your laptop.

My Tag is fully manual. Vibes proposes tags from the audio itself and learns your preferences, so most of the tagging is done for you, then exports into Rekordbox so My Tag-style filtering still works in the booth.

Yes. Vibes lets you build unlimited categories and vibes, just like My Tag categories, but with AI suggestions and faster bulk tagging.

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