How do you organize your songs?

[Emery]

Quick q on camelot numbers....what if there isn't one? I have a track that is apparently D#m but it's not on the camelot wheel

I think it's Ebm (2A)

[dj matt blaze]

The biggest problem I had when switching from cd to all digital was how to organize the music. You have to develop a system that is best for you and the way you remember things and makes it easier to find a track when it pops in your head. For me I base most everything around years. I have a huge collection 55,000+ so its broken up by decades, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s etc. then broken up by genre...pop, r&b, rock etc. and then by artist. With that said I do have some folders that are just genre, like I have a ROCK folder that contains different artists and subfolders like classic rock that then contains more artists. But in the 80s folder there is an 80's rock subfolder, its just my system and how I remember where thigs are. Newer music is broken up into months then genre. So I have a JULY 2012 folder that has subfolders of Radio, House, Hip Hop (dirty), hip hop (clean).

[bobbylight]

I make playlists of what's "playable" in itunes so I have one electro, house, etc. Since I'm primarily a progressive guy, I further separate progressive into 3 more subcategories: uplifting, hard, and chill. In those, I use the rating to determine the intensity of the song and where they'd go in a set (1 star is super chill, 5 is all-out banger) and this works well for me. And I go through my music every so often and clean everything out I don't need.