{"id":982,"date":"2023-12-01T13:50:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T13:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deejayplaza.com\/en\/?p=982"},"modified":"2025-01-21T12:53:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T11:53:52","slug":"rekordbox-my-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deejayplaza.com\/en\/articles\/rekordbox-my-tag","title":{"rendered":"Rekordbox My Tag – complete tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is My Tag in Rekordbox?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Rekordbox allows you to define so called “My Tags” for tracks.
This is basically an extra piece of information you can attach to a track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What these tags are, represent or how they are named, is completely up to you.
You can define your own custom tags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For convenience, Rekordbox has defined roughly 25 tags already when you install the software.
But you are free to use them or delete them if you want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Tags will be exported to USB drives along with your music, so you can use them to filter tracks on a CDJ or XDJ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the most useful applications of tags is: Intelligent Playlists.
With Intelligent Playlists you can automatically generate a playlist based on the value of a tag.
For more information, read my article on Intelligent Playlists in Rekordbox<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A practical example of My Tag<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Besides my usual EDM and other music genres, I’ve been a dancer for years and have built an extensive library of dance music.
So I made folders and sub-folders for genres, and tags for specific dances like Samba, Salsa, Kizomba, Quickstep etc.
I’ve made an Intelligent Playlists for each dance.
So when I DJ a dancing event and want to play a Samba, I choose one from the “Samba” playlist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ID3 Tags VS My Tags VS Tag List<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The person naming stuff at Pioneer software division surely had a day off.
Because it it really easy to confuse ID3 tags with My Tags and Tag List.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ID tags<\/strong> is meta data that is stored in a music file like: artist, album, genre, key and BPM.
ID tags can store alphanumerical values.
The amount of ID tags can’t be changed, also the names of those tags can’t be changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Tags <\/strong>are stored only in Rekordbox.
My Tags can only contain a checked or unchecked value.
You can add or remove as many tags as you like, and name them as you deem useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tag list<\/strong> is also known as a “prepare list”.
In other words: the list of tracks you are playing next.
You tag tracks to be played next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the rest of this article I’m talking about My Tags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rekordbox hard?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t worry, I created a step-by-step video training to teach you all <\/strong>the ins and outs of Rekordbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How do you add My Tags to songs in Rekordbox?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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1. Make sure that the My Tag-pane is showing by clicking on the tag icon on the right side of the screen.
2. Once the My Tag-pane is showing, click on one of the plus-icons<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3. Enter the name of the tag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4. Hit ENTER to confirm the name
5. The My Tag is added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to edit My Tags in Rekordbox<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

1. Make sure that the My Tag-pane is showing by clicking on the tag icon on the right side of the screen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2. Click on one of the text of one of the My Tags in the My-Tags-pane.
3. Hit ENTER to confirm your change (or ESC to cancel it)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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