Solution to A Ton of Sounds
The puzzle is composed of 5 second clips from various songs. Each song title contains a word that represents a letter in the NATO phonetic alphabet (clued by the title - "A Ton" anagrams to "NATO"). The songs in the mp3 file are sorted alphabetically by artist.
| Song artist | Song title | Letter | First word of clip |
| Azure Ray | November | N | carefree |
| Chicago | Mississippi Delta City Blues | D | I've |
| Cyndi Lauper | Echo | E | all |
| D. J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince | I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson | M | rough |
| Gary P. Nunn | Corona con Lima | L | corona |
| Grateful Dead | Cosmic Charlie | C | charlie |
| Guns'N'Roses | November Rain | N | hard |
| Kamelot | Edenecho | E | but |
| Kanye West | Diamonds from Sierra Leone | S | forever |
| Kenny Chesney | Hemingway's Whiskey | W | burns |
| Lanny Sherwin | Lima Beans and Liver | L | try |
| Ledisi | Bravo | B | a |
| Linda Rondstadt | High Sierra | S | explain |
| Radiohead | India Rubber | I | smile |
| Scar Symmetry | Alpha and Omega | A | nothing |
| Stratovarius | Alpha and Omega | A | god |
| The Byrds | 2-4-2 Fox Trot (The Learjet Song) | F | lear jet |
| The Decemberists | Yankee Bayonet | Y | wolves |
| The Mountain Goats | Alpha Rats Nest | A | dream |
| Tom Lehrer | The Masochism Tango | T | before |
| Trapt | Echo | E | by |
The flavortext "When you first hear a song, file it away" suggests that you should listen to the clip and order by what is first. Sorting alphabetically by the first word of the clip and then reading the single letters from the titles gives the phrase BETWEEN CLASS AND FAMILY. In taxonomy, the group between class and family is ORDER.