/ Free tool — The library audit
How much of your library
do you actually use?
Four numbers in. The honest picture of what you own, what you've ignored, and what it cost you. Every number on the report card is derived from your own answers.
You own
Right-click your samples folder → Properties (or estimate).
You've been collecting for
From your first pack to today.
Average monthly spend
Splice subscriptions, pack purchases, plugin libraries — averaged out.
Of your library, you'll never touch
Folders you never open, packs you forgot you bought, plus all the variations of the same sound you'd never reach for.
— Sample Vault · Library audit · MAY 6, 2026
- You own35,000 samples
- Graveyard24,500 samples
- Lifetime spend$2,520
- Spent on the graveyard$1,764= a UA Apollo Twin
— Verdict
The Stockpiler.
You collect for a future self that never arrives.
The problem isn't supply. It's recall.
— samplevault.ai/audit
/ Run this on your real library
Find the sound you already own.
/ Postscript — On the recall problem
Every number on the report card comes straight from your own answers — what you own, what you spent, what you said you've never touched. We don't model how often you reuse a kick or count variations as separate sounds. The graveyard is whatever percentage you said it was.
Most producers don't have a sample shortage — they have an indexing problem. Filenames aren't sounds, and folders organise by source rather than character. So anything you can't remember by name effectively doesn't exist on disk, no matter how many drives you fill. The graveyard isn't waste — it's the default state of an unsearchable archive. Buying more samples won't change that. Finding what's already there will.
— Sample Vault, May 2026