# Tags

Tags are labels you put on songs so you can find them again, like "acoustic", "Christmas", "opener" or "learning". A song can have as many tags as you like, and you can filter **Songs** to show only the songs with a tag.

## Add tags to a song

Select the pencil on the song page, then use the **Tags** card. On a tablet or phone, it's in the panel that opens from the button at the bottom right of the editor.

Start typing a tag's name and Songstead offers the tags you already have. If you type a name you haven't used before, it becomes a new tag when you save the song.

## Group tags and personal tags

A tag belongs to a group, the same way a song does.

| Kind | Who sees it | Which songs it can go on |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Group tag | Everyone in the group. | Songs in that group. |
| Personal tag | Only you. | Any song you can see, including songs in other people's groups. |

On a song in a shared group, the **Tags** card has two boxes: **Group Tags** and **Personal Tags**. On a song in your **Personal** group, every tag is personal, so there's only one box.

Personal tags are handy in a band's library. You can tag the songs you sing lead on, for example, without changing anything anyone else sees.

A viewer in a group can't change the group's tags, but can still add personal tags to the group's songs. See [Groups and roles](https://songstead.app/docs/groups.md).

When a song moves to another group, its group tags move with it. If the new group doesn't have a tag by that name yet, Songstead creates it.

## Manage your tags

Open **Library** from the menu, then the **Tags** tab. It lists every tag and how many songs have it. If you're in more than one group, choose which group's tags to see with **Group** at the top.

![The Tags tab in Library, with the Group set to Broken Remote. Five tags are listed, each with how many songs have it: Acoustic on 7 songs, Closer on 2, Crowd favorite on 3, Needs work on 2 and Opener on 3. Each row has three buttons on the right: an eye, a pencil and a trash can. A New Tag button is at the top right.](https://songstead.app/docs/tags/library-tags.webp "tablet")

Each tag has three buttons:

| Button | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| Eye | Hides the tag, or shows it again. |
| Pencil | Opens **Edit Tag**, where you can rename the tag or change its color. |
| Trash can | Opens **Delete Tag**, which takes the tag off every song that has it. |

When you delete a tag, you can pick another tag to put on those songs instead. That's how you merge two tags into one, like "Xmas" into "Christmas".

**New Tag** at the top makes a tag before you've used it on any song.

Only a group's owners and editors can rename or delete its tags.

## Hide a tag

Hiding a tag stops it showing on your songs. The songs themselves still show. Only you are affected, so hiding a group tag doesn't change anything for anyone else.

This is useful in a large group where other people use tags you don't need, like another team's labels.

## Filter by tag

On **Songs**, the **Tags** filter shows only the songs with the tags you pick. See [Search, filter and sort](https://songstead.app/docs/search.md).