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

opener

Opener

Aqua

#10E4DC

warm_up

Warm Up

Green

#1EE12B

build

Build

Yellow

#F8E550

peak

Peak

Red

#F87070

after_peak

After Peak

Orange

#FFA064

closing

Closing

Blue

#1E50F0

break

Break

Purple

#9828F0

general

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#

  1. Click Add Section (toolbar or section panel + button), or press Ctrl+Shift+A.

  2. Enter a name (e.g. “Friday Peak”).

  3. Choose a type from the dropdown.

  4. 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

#F870F8

Red

#F87070

Orange

#FFA064

Yellow

#F8E550

Green

#1EE12B

Aqua

#10E4DC

Blue

#1E50F0

Purple

#9828F0

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#

  1. Open Project → Section Name Themes…

  2. Click New Theme and enter a theme name.

  3. Fill in the name overrides for each section type (leave blank to keep the default label).

  4. 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.