In some ways, though, he was apparently a master of <i>not</i> distributing music.<p>I heard a story today on my local NPR station where they interviewed the maker of the documentary &quot;Hunting for Prince&#x27;s Vault&quot;. Many years ago once of Prince&#x27;s engineers set up a vault to keep all of Prince&#x27;s unreleased material. (And they made it a literal vault...complete with the kind of door you find in banks).<p>It was interesting. Prince was apparently pretty much always writing new songs, and making studio recordings of them, and promo videos for them...but then not releasing them. People would find him in the studio recording on holidays and ask why he was working on a holiday, and he&#x27;d tell them he wasn&#x27;t working.<p>From what it sounds like, he wrote and recorded music the way Isaac Asimov wrote. It was what made him happy and what he wanted to be doing all the time.<p>As far as the documentary maker was able to figure out from talking to Prince&#x27;s engineers and collaborators and such, the vault contains enough finished and recorded songs for over 100 albums, plus a couple full length movies, music videos, promo video, concert footage.