Tracks#

Adding tracks#

Import from a streaming service#

The most common workflow is to import an entire Spotify or Tidal playlist at once. See Connecting Streaming Services and Working with Rekordbox for the full import flow.

Add a track manually#

  1. Select a section.

  2. Click Add Track in the section header, or press Ctrl+T.

  3. Fill in the track details in the Add Track dialog:

    • Artist (required)

    • Title (required)

    • BPM (optional)

    • Key (optional)

  4. Click OK.

Manually added tracks have source manual and match status unmatched until matched against the Rekordbox collection.

Removing tracks#

Select one or more track rows and press Delete, or right-click → Remove Track. Removing is undoable.

Reordering tracks#

Drag a row to a new position within the same section, or drag it into a different section’s track table.

Filtering and sorting#

A search box at the top of each section filters tracks in real time by artist or title — useful in large sections.

Click any column header to sort by that column; click again to reverse the order. Sorting is in-memory and does not reorder the saved section.

Track match status#

After importing from a streaming service, each track is matched against your Rekordbox library. The match status is displayed in the track table and in the Match Info panel.

Status

Meaning

matched

A local Rekordbox file was found automatically

manually_matched

You manually assigned a local file via Fix Match

unmatched

No local file could be found

conflicted

Multiple potential matches were found; manual review required

Unmatched tracks are still included in the project and in exports; they just won’t carry local metadata (BPM, key, file path).

Match strategies#

The matching engine tries four strategies in order:

  1. ISRC — exact match on the international recording code. Most reliable; requires both the streaming track and the local file to have an ISRC.

  2. Exact — case-insensitive exact match on artist + title.

  3. Fuzzy — similarity match on artist + title using token-sort ratio; threshold is 85 out of 100.

  4. Filename — parses the local file’s stem as “Artist - Title” and compares.

The strategy used is shown in the Match column and in the Match Info panel.

Fixing a bad match#

If the automatic match is incorrect:

  1. Right-click the track → Fix Match…

  2. In the Fix Match dialog, type a search term to find the correct local track.

  3. Select the correct row and click Accept.

The track’s match status changes to manually_matched and the strategy is recorded as manual.

Track source#

Each track has a source field indicating where its metadata came from:

Source

Description

spotify

Imported from a Spotify playlist

tidal

Imported from a Tidal playlist

rekordbox

Added directly from the Rekordbox collection

manual

Added manually via the Add Track dialog