The music4dance song details page contains all of the information that we have gathered about a song, including tags and dances that you may have added.
Below is a snapshot of a song details page for “How Sweet it Is” as seen by a user, “Charles”, while he is viewing it. Some of the features will be slightly different if you aren’t signed in, but the general information is available to everyone.

- Title Line:
- Favorites/Blocked: The heart icon is an outline, which indicates that Charles has neither added this song to his favorites (liked – or filled heart) nor expressed that he doesn’t want to see this song in his searches (blocked or heart with a slash). Clicking on the heart will allow him to change that decision. You can also add to favorites/hide songs by clicking on the heart icon in any song list.
- Title: The title of the song.
- Artist: This is a clickable link that takes you to a list of all songs in the catalog by this artist.
- Actions: Once you have made edits to the page, you’ll have the option to
CancelorSave Changeson the right side of this line.
- Actions:
- Play/Purchase Song: Amazon/iTunes/Spotify buttons linking to play or purchase the song. Additional help on music services is available by clicking the help button next to the services.
- If you are a premium user, the
Add to Playlistbutton will allow you to add this song to the end of an existing Spotify playlist. More Info… - The
Back to Searchbutton will take you back to the search results that got you to this page, or a list of all songs if you didn’t arrive on this page through a search. - Help: Will take you to this page. Note that you can also use the
Helpitem from theInfomenu to get to help for most pages on the site.
- Song Tags:
- In view mode, this is a list of the tags that you or others have tagged the song with (you can then search on those tags). In this case, Charles has tagged the song as
Pop,which is indicated by the check mark in the tag (the4/4andAdult Contemporarytags were added by others) - In Edit mode, the tag section expands to explicitly list your tags (which you can delete by clicking on the
x), anAdd Tagsdropdown to add new tags, and anOther's Tagssection that lets you easily add tags that others have previously tagged this song with. More info on tag editing is available on the Tag Editing page.
- In view mode, this is a list of the tags that you or others have tagged the song with (you can then search on those tags). In this case, Charles has tagged the song as
- Preview: If available, this will show a mini media player that lets you play a 30-second clip of the song.
- Song Info:
- Length of the song in seconds
- Tempo of the song in Beats Per minute
- EchoNest Info: Beat, Energy and Mood.
- Timestamps: Created/Edited/Modified
- Undo My Changes: If you’ve made changes to this song, you can undo them all by clicking this button (this is a permanent action).
- Dances: A list of all of the dances that are users have associated with this song (on the left) and dances that we’ve inferred through the tempo of the song combined with user voting (on the right). In this case, Charles has voted for this song as “East Coast Swing” as indicated by the dark upward triangle next to the name of the dance. You can vote up or down by clicking on the arrows. More info on voting is available on the Dance Tag page.
- Dances also have a tag section that works just like the Song tag Section (C) – these tags are intended to be specific to the intersection of the Song and the Dance style. So, for instance your might have a song tag that state the tempo is 4/4, but a dance tag of slow – which would be slow for east coast swing, but might be a normal tempo for west coast swing.
- Albums: list of albums that we’ve found this song on as well as the music services where they are available for purchase or streaming.
- Changes: This is a history of who has changed the song and what they’ve changed.
- This list includes Voting on Dances and Tag editing; it doesn’t include every change made by the system by default. You can include some fo the automated changes made by the system by clicking the
Include Automatedtoggle. - You can click on the user ID to see a list of songs that the user has changed.
- This list includes Voting on Dances and Tag editing; it doesn’t include every change made by the system by default. You can include some fo the automated changes made by the system by clicking the
Below is the same image after Charles has started editing the page

- Controls
- Cancel: Exit edit mode and discard any changes
- Save Changes: Save your changes to the song and go back to viewing mode – note that this doesn’t show up until you’ve actually made changes.
- Song Tags – this section now has three subsections
- Your Tags/Add Tags: If you’ve added tags, they will appear here. Even if you haven’t added tags (as is the case for Charles in this image), you will see a dropdown that will let you add new tags to the song.
- Others’ Tags: This shows tags that other people or the system have added – clicking on the
+will add them as your own tags. - Remove System Tags: This shows tags added by the system. Since they haven’t been reviewed by a human, they are sometimes incorrect. Please feel free to remove them by clicking the
x.
- Song Info: The Length and Tempo are editable if they have not previously been changed by another user. If the field is not editable and you feel that it is in error, please contact us, and we’ll review. Note that in the case of tempo, it may be that the song is danced to different tempos, so please check the Dances section to see if the tempo is correct for the dance you’re concerned with (or you may be able to edit it there).
- Comment: Please feel free to add a comment about this song (note that you also have the opportunity to do this more specifically about the song as it relates to a dance in the Dances section)
- For each dance, you can change the tempo, add/remove tags, and make comments specific to the song as related to the dance. You can also vote on the song’s danceability to this dance style or add a new dance.
