Organising songs with tags

With tags you organise your choir's songs, for example by occasion (Christmas, wedding), style, difficulty, language or with your own keywords such as "by heart" or "Advent concert 2026". In "All songs", every member can then filter and search by them. The tags are assigned by the choir leadership and the admins.

Which tags there are

• Choir tags: only apply to your choir and appear exactly as you typed them. A choir tag is at most 40 characters long.
• Occasion: sorted by church year (Advent, Christmas, New Year, Lent & Passion, Easter, Pentecost, Harvest), services & celebrations (church service, wedding, baptism, funeral, birthday & anniversary), seasons (spring to winter) and in concert (opener, encore, sing-along).
• Style: classical, hymn & chorale, contemporary worship, gospel & spiritual, pop & rock, jazz & swing, musicals & film, folk song, children's song, world music, oldies & evergreens.
• Difficulty: easy, medium or advanced. A song has at most one level; a new one replaces the old one.
• Language: 22 languages, including German, English, Latin, French and Italian. If cori recognises the lyrics from the recordings, it fills in the language itself, as long as the song doesn't have one yet.
• Voicing: for example SATB, SSA, unison or 6 parts. cori works this out from the names of the voices when saving; it can't be set by hand.

All tags except choir tags are translated: anyone using cori in German sees the tag "Weihnachten" on a song tagged "Christmas", and finds it that way too.

Assigning tags

1. 1
   Open the song menu

   Web app

   In All songs, open a song's ⋮ menu and choose Edit tags.

   Mobile app

   In a song list, press and hold a song or tap its ⋮ and choose Edit tags.
2. 2
   Tap tags

   A tap on a tag sets it, a second tap removes it again. In the Search or add a tag field you find any tag by its name. If the term you typed doesn't exist yet, you create it as a choir tag with one tap. The entry for this reads, for example, Create “by heart” as a choir tag.

3. 3
   Save

   Web app

   Click “Save”. “Cancel” discards your selection.

   Mobile app

   Tap “Done”. Closing saves.

   cori confirms with "Tags saved". With Undo in that message you reverse the change.

Several songs at once

The window is then called, for example, "Tags for 5 songs". A tag that only some of the songs have shows the count after it, such as "3/5". One tap sets it for all of them, another removes it from all of them. Tags you don't touch stay on each song as they were.

When creating a song

When you create a new song, you choose its tags right in the step with the name. Add tag opens the same window. This is optional; cori adds voicing and language itself when saving.

Renaming or deleting choir tags

As soon as your choir has choir tags, the tag window shows the Manage button next to the "Choir tags" heading. There you see all your choir's choir tags with the number of their songs and can rename or delete them.

• Renaming changes the tag on all songs. If another choir tag already has that name, the two are merged.
• Deleting removes the tag from all songs that have it. This can't be undone.

Capitalisation doesn't matter for choir tags: "By heart" and "by heart" are one tag.

Filtering and searching

If you choose several tags from the same group, cori shows songs with any one of them (Christmas or Advent). Tags from different groups must all match (Christmas and easy). Reset clears the filter.

The "Search songs and tags..." field finds songs by their name and by their tags, in the language you use cori in. From two letters onwards, matching tags appear below the field (on the web under "Tags as filters"), and a tap on one turns it into a filter.

You can also search and filter by tags when adding songs to a setlist.

What happens to the tags

• Song renamed: the tags move with it.
• Song deleted: its tags are gone.
• Song copied to another choir: the fixed tags come along, choir tags don't, as they belong to the choir.
• Song set to private: members see neither the song nor its tags.
• Song archived: it keeps its tags. In the archive view you filter the archived songs.

If it doesn't work

• "Edit tags" is missing: only the choir leadership and admins see the entry. On the web it's only in All songs, not in a setlist.
• "Your choir already has 200 tags of its own. Delete old ones before adding new ones." A choir can't have more than 200 choir tags. Delete some you no longer need under "Manage".
• "The tags couldn't be saved. Check your connection and try again." Check your connection and save again.
• "A song can have at most 40 tags. Remove some before adding new ones." A song can't carry more than 40 tags. First remove tags it no longer needs, and then saving works.
• "You need an internet connection to tag songs." (app): without a connection, tags can be viewed but not changed.
• "Tags" in the selection stays grey (app): the selection contains songs from several choirs or a song that hasn't been uploaded yet. Tags belong to a choir's songs on the server.
• "No song matches these filters." The selected tags rule each other out. Remove a filter or reset them all.

What's next?

• The choir's song list: All your choir's songs
• Putting old songs aside: Archiving songs
• Putting songs together for a rehearsal: Managing setlists