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You shouldn't have agreed to it when VLC asked at the first start... You can get the dialog back by resetting the VLC prefs and restarting it.

Remi, the question still is not answered.
see my comment 2017 july 02 please

To the VLC DEVELOPERS Rémi Dennis-C. - Last request of mshlick (Mark) has not been answered. " Please please please provide and option to disable the album art caching feature " This counts for me too. I had 12 Mb of A COUNTLESS number of .jpg files in the art folder (in 2 month time). Thi...

(This post also placed on tropic https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=95831) Hay, a summary of all posts above. I got finally the possible SOLUTION out of thread - VLC Media Player 1.1.11 The Luggage slow open from Nov 23, 2011 A very rude and unrespectful Post to the developers by sn...

Hay, a summary of all posts above I got finally the possible SOLUTION out of thread - VLC Media Player 1.1.11 The Luggage slow open from Nov 23, 2011 A very rude and unrespectful Post to the developers by sniffy45 on Nov 12, 2014 did give me the answer I'm running VLC media player 2.1.5 Rincewind on...

Jean-Baptiste Kempf your talking about VCL 3.0.0 ..... I read somewhere about VCL media player 3.0.0-git-20150402-0003 as a solution for my probem (as many people have with version 2.0.0 and up). I use VLC ver. 2.1.5 Rincewind and it is starting slow (10-15 sec) on ... every file ext. as well as ......