sections

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.

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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.

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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.

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Renaming a section

Double-click the section header, or right-click → Rename.

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Reordering sections

Drag the section header to a new position.

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Deleting a section

Right-click the section header → Delete Section. All tracks inside the section are removed. This action is undoable.

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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.

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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.