Will fans ever get to hear the full depths of Prince’s storied recording vault?

After the musician’s death in April 2016, attention focused on the trove of unreleased material that he kept hidden in two storage vaults at Paisley Park, his studio complex outside Minneapolis. Over the years, it has attained near-mythic status, and his associates have reported that it contained hundreds or even thousands of songs. Yet when Prince died — without a will or a plan for the music’s release — most of the vault was not even cataloged.

On Friday, a small glimpse of this trove emerged with a reissue of “Purple Rain” by Warner Bros. and NPG, Prince’s record company, including a bonus disc of unreleased material.

But a conflict in Prince’s estate over a $31 million deal with Universal for music rights means that much of the vault may not see daylight for months or even years to come. And music industry lawyers say that copyright entanglements may complicate or even prohibit the release of more music; the aborted release of “Deliverance,” an EP that the estate sued to block, may be one example of these problems.

For much of the last year, Prince’s estate has been in what the judge overseeing it, Kevin W. Eide of Carver County District Court in Chaska, Minn., called a state of “personal and corporate mayhem.”