Source: Digital music services, Lost in Digital Music

How do you categorize the music you’ve downloaded?

With dozens of digital music services available and each with millions of tracks in their catalog, you would have a difficult time finding particular songs and artists if you did not organize or categorize them in some way.

There are numerous ways you could organize your playlists.

You might choose to organize your playlists by genre with labels such as rock, pop, dance, etc., or you might organize your playlists by artists. You might even organize your playlists by an event/activity such as workout music or road-trip tunes.

When you categorize music tracks, you are classifying the tracks according to certain characteristics.

Scientists estimate that there are over 10 million different species on Earth. How do scientists keep up with all the different species? The answer is taxonomy! Taxonomy is the science of classifying living organisms, just like classifying your songs and artists using playlists.