If it's at that point, that is all on you for being lazy and not taking 20 minutes to organize a new sample pack every time you download it. It's really not that tough, and not everything in life is going to be handed to you, sometimes you actually need to put in some work yourself ..

 

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I spent a week or so navigating through my hard drive, and organizing things into a way i see fit. Sub categories for genres, type within etc. While going through, i ended up deleting a significant amount of stuff i would never touch, marking favorites, renaming as needed etc. It took a solid week to do about 2tbs, but now that i have that, when i get or create new samples, i know exactly where to place them and how to find them again later. Its worth taking the time, and feels good afterwards.

@clone is the offline loopcloud you mention a crack? or start a trial and just never let it connect?

 

I have to add my two cents here. I myself am addicted to plugins and sample packs...I have to admit that openly and honestly...I can't say why that is.
I own 7TB of sample packs alone...I took the trouble to sort them by company.
I also use Loopcloud, and when I'm looking for something, I can find it very quickly. I'm also a Maschine Studio user and have added about 200 sample packs to Maschine and tagged every sample.
I've also built about 10 of my own sample packs from the 7TB, which I've re-rendered and added to the Maschine library. These contain my favorite sounds... Believe me, I've tried every sample manager out there, and ultimately, you can throw them all in the trash once you have more than, say, 1TB of samples. Only Loopcloud stands out because it doesn't slow down much even with large libraries once everything has been tagged.
I reinstalled my computer last week and unfortunately lost a large sample folder due to an error in the Windows installation, but the good thing is that I've changed and decided not to download the samples that were lost again.
From now on, I'll only install the plugins for mixing and sound generators that I personally really like, as well as Kontakt libraries.

What I have definitely discovered over the years is that most sample packs are simply copies of other packs, with sounds being recycled endlessly and sold as new.

That's why, from now on, when I download a new pack, I listen to it, pick out the best bits, and delete the rest.

 

Fuck this,fuck this and fuck this....

This shit is so incredibly annoying... just like : Splice_MygoddamnfuckingNiceKit_Oneshot_Drumz_Kicks - MotherfucknwestcoastslapassbitchKICK

 

cancelled subscription. They can't exactly lock you out of your own samples.

The time one might spend listening to samples, is the exact same amount of time you might put into just finding one good one at the exact moment when you actually need it. When you are creating whatever it is that you do. One in the chamber is worth 15 in the clip. Everyone here probably has some synth they have thousands of presets for, and no-one would ever try to listen to them all. A "StumbleUpon" mindset works the same way, when you can manipulate audio whatever way you want. There are no "magic samples" once you can. That is part of the marketing game that gets played. "808 Samples" are my favorite, with all the weasel wording to allude to using some expensive piece of real gear like someone such as Goldbaby does. Just without any Goldbaby resources to even buy or get access to those devices. Wasting 20 minutes to check out a random pack is a recipe for why OP started the thread. I call them all "808 samples" because it is the most commonly lied about expensive device claimed to be sampled by these people; most of whom will never even see one in person, nevermind have the money to buy one.

People who put those special characters into file and folder names are trying to get their stuff to the top of your finder/browser window hoping you sort alphabetically. They are spammers.

The old ways of people with their "curated sample libraries" are completely obsolete to me. It doesn't mean anything at all you have spent 500 hours chopping and saving work from Recycle for example. Maybe use 20 of them in a year? Without being needed for use, the world's best sample pack won't help at all if it isn't even for the right genre of the track you have open in your DAW at that exact moment in time. That is a time drain for some stuff you aren't ever going to use. Ever. The actual grunt work of the entire thing can be handled adequately about 95%+ if you just use some of the scripting and automation tools your OS probably already has in them.

 

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