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title: "Digital Signage Control Media Playback by Tags"
description: "Learn how to control media playback using tags in the playlists. Customize your digital signage content with ease and precision."
url: https://easysignage.com/help/playlists/3.7-control-media-playback-by-tags/
---

# 7 - Control Media Playback by Tags

This document explains how to use tags in EasySignage playlists to control which media plays on which screens, so only content with matching tags appears on designated displays.

## How to control media playback using Tags

Using tags you can limit media that belong to the same playlist to play on specific screens only as in the below example.

Playlist 1 has multiple media with multiple tags, and is published to 3 screens where Screen 1 has the tag “office1”, screen 2 has the tag “office 2” and screen 3 without tags

Each screen will play all media that have matching tags or media without tags as below diagram:

![Digital Signage Media Tags](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/tags/digital-signage-media-tags.jpg)

To set up media and screen tags follow the below steps

1.  Open playlist media settings (open a playlist > choose layer > click edit on a media)

    ![edit digital signage media tags](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/tags/digital-signage-edit-media.png)

2.  Add one or more tags

3.  Enable “Tags playback restriction”

    ![Digital Signage Media Tags](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/tags/digital-signage-media-tags-2.png)

4.  Go to the screens page and open screen tags ( screens > click on orange cog > Tags )

    ![Digital Signage Screen Tags 1](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/tags/digital-signage-open-screen-tags.png)

5.  Enter one or more tags. Media with matching tags will be displayed on this screen.

    ![Digital Signage Screen Tags 2](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/tags/digital-signage-screen-tags-1.png)

6.  Click “Publish” Media with matching tags will be sent to the screen

_Note: To add or remove the same tags on many items at once, select them first. See [Add or remove tags on several media items](https://easysignage.com/help/media-assets/digital-signage-media-assets/#add-or-remove-tags-on-several-media-items) and [Tag or publish several screens at once](https://easysignage.com/help/screens/digital-signage-screens/#tag-or-publish-several-screens-at-once) ._

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