Sections#
A section represents a phase of your DJ set — Opener, Warm Up, Build, and so on. It has a name, a type, a colour, and an ordered list of tracks.
Section types#
The following types are built in. Each type has a default Rekordbox track colour and a display label.
Type |
Label |
Default colour |
Hex |
|---|---|---|---|
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Opener |
Aqua |
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Warm Up |
Green |
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Build |
Yellow |
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Peak |
Red |
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After Peak |
Orange |
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Closing |
Blue |
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Break |
Purple |
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General |
None (no colour) |
— |
The colour mapping follows the natural energy arc of a set: cool tones for low-energy phases, warm tones for high-energy phases.
Creating a section#
Click Add Section (toolbar or section panel
+button), or pressCtrl+Shift+A.Enter a name (e.g. “Friday Peak”).
Choose a type from the dropdown.
Click OK.
The section appears at the bottom of the list with the default colour for its type.
Renaming a section#
Double-click the section header, or right-click → Rename.
Reordering sections#
Drag the section header to a new position.
Deleting a section#
Right-click the section header → Delete Section. All tracks inside the section are removed. This action is undoable.
Colours#
Each section carries a Rekordbox colour that is embedded in the exported XML. When Rekordbox imports the XML, tracks are shown in that colour in the browser and on CDJs that support colour tagging.
Available colours#
Name |
Hex |
|---|---|
None (no colour) |
— |
Pink |
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Red |
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Orange |
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Yellow |
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Green |
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Aqua |
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Blue |
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Purple |
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These are the exact colour codes baked into the Rekordbox 7 binary — no other colours are possible in a Rekordbox-compatible export.
Changing a section’s colour#
Click the colour swatch in the section header to open the colour picker, then click the desired colour.
Recolour all sections by type#
Project → Recolour All Sections resets every section’s colour to the default for its type. Useful after changing section types in bulk.
Name themes#
A name theme is a saved mapping from section type to display name. You can have multiple themes per project and apply one at a time to rename all sections in bulk.
Example themes:
Type |
Default |
“Berlin Techno” theme |
“Melodic House” theme |
|---|---|---|---|
Opener |
Opener |
Eingang |
Dawn |
Build |
Build |
Aufbau |
Journey |
Peak |
Peak |
Höhepunkt |
Climax |
Closing |
Closing |
Ausgang |
Dusk |
Creating a theme#
Open Project → Section Name Themes…
Click New Theme and enter a theme name.
Fill in the name overrides for each section type (leave blank to keep the default label).
Click OK.
Applying a theme#
In the Section Name Themes dialog, select a theme and click Apply to Project. All sections whose type has a non-blank override will be renamed instantly. The operation is undoable.