Limit Song Requests to Your Own Repertoire
Keep your events focused by limiting song requests to only the tracks you know and can perform. Rekwest offers two ways to do this: point an event at a single playlist from Spotify, TIDAL, SoundCloud, or Apple Music, or build a fully custom repertoire inside Rekwest that your guests can search.
Below is everything you need to know about setting up repertoire-based song requests.
Why Limit to Your Repertoire?
When you limit song requests to your own repertoire, you maintain complete control over the musical direction of your event while still allowing guest participation. Guests still get to pick the music, but only from songs you have approved in advance.
The Two Options
Both options live in the same place and do the same basic job. They differ in where the songs come from and in what guests can do with them.
| Playlist as repertoire | Custom repertoire | |
|---|---|---|
| Plan | Professional | Enterprise |
| Songs come from | One playlist on Spotify, TIDAL, SoundCloud, or Apple Music | Songs you add by hand and any number of imported playlists |
| Guests can | Browse the playlist | Search the repertoire, or browse it |
| Kept up to date | Automatically, straight from the platform | You re-sync a playlist or edit the repertoire whenever you like |
| Reusable | Chosen again per event | Can be easily reused across events |
Every event uses one option or the other, never both.
Where to Set It Up
- Go to the Create Event page in Rekwest (or edit one of your existing events)
- Open the What can be requested section
- Choose one of the three options:
- Full catalog: anything on your music platform can be requested (the default)
- Only songs from one Spotify playlist as repertoire: the Professional option. The option names whichever platform your event uses, so it reads TIDAL, SoundCloud, or Apple Music instead when you picked one of those.
- Only songs from a fully custom repertoire: the Enterprise option
Option 1: A Playlist as Your Repertoire
Available on the Professional plan.
Pick one playlist from the music platform your event uses, and that playlist becomes the event’s repertoire.
Setting It Up
- Select the one playlist as repertoire option
- Tap Choose playlist and pick the playlist that represents your repertoire
What Your Guests Will Experience
Guests scroll through the songs on your playlist and pick one. The general music search is disabled, and there is no search inside the playlist either. This option is browse only, which works best for playlists of a few hundred songs at most.
Managing Your Playlist
Your playlist stays the live source for available songs:
- Add new songs to your connected playlist to expand available requests
- Remove songs from the playlist to stop them appearing as options
- Reorder tracks in your playlist to influence how they appear to guests
- Changes sync automatically: updates to your playlist are immediately reflected in Rekwest
Option 2: A Fully Custom Repertoire
Available on the Enterprise plan.
A repertoire is a list of songs that lives inside Rekwest itself. You build it once, guests can search it, and you can use the same repertoire for every event you run.
Creating a Repertoire
- Go to Settings → Repertoires
- Tap Create repertoire
- Give it a name and pick its music source (Spotify, SoundCloud, Apple Music, or TIDAL)
The music source can no longer be changed once the repertoire contains songs, and an event can only use a repertoire that matches the event’s own music source.
Filling Your Repertoire
You can combine both of these as much as you like:
- Import playlists: load every song from a playlist into the repertoire. You can import as many playlists as you want into a single repertoire; songs that are already in it are skipped automatically, so overlapping playlists cause no duplicates.
- Add songs by hand: search the platform and add individual songs one at a time.
Keeping It Up to Date
Because the songs live in Rekwest, a repertoire does not follow its source playlists automatically. You stay in control of when it changes:
- Re-sync a playlist to pull in songs that were added to it since the last import
- Forget a playlist to remove the record of where songs came from. The songs themselves stay in the repertoire.
- Remove single songs you no longer want to be requestable
- Clear the repertoire to empty it completely while keeping the repertoire itself, so events using it keep working
- Delete the repertoire to remove it and all of its songs. Events using it will no longer limit requests.
Using It for an Event
- In the event’s What can be requested section, select Only songs from a fully custom repertoire
- Tap Choose repertoire and pick one of your repertoires
The same repertoire can be used on as many events as you like, including recurring ones.
What Your Guests Will Experience
Guests can search your repertoire as well as scroll through it, which keeps it usable no matter how many songs it holds. The general music search stays disabled: everything they can find is a song you put in the repertoire yourself.
Which Should I Choose?
- Your repertoire already exists as one playlist, it is not too long, and you are happy for it to change whenever the playlist changes → use a playlist as your repertoire
- Your repertoire is large, spread over several playlists, contains songs you want to add individually, or you want guests to be able to search it → build a custom repertoire
Need Help?
If you encounter any issues with repertoire limiting, visit rekwest.app/support or reach out to our team. We’re here to help you create the perfect controlled request experience for your events!