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Just tested it and it works. Running this command in Terminal will bypass the "Check for album art and metadata?" popup for all users:

I've noticed that OS X will read some of VLC's preferences from /Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc.plist like the SUHasLaunchedBefore key for example. Hopefully VLCFirstRun will be one of those preferences as it makes customising VLC's experience for each user easier to manage, but it's not a big...

Thanks dfuhrmann. Do you know if that VLCFirstRun key can be read from /Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc.plist or would I need to set this key in ~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc.plist?

When VLC first launches, the following dialog window appears: http://www.stanwell.org/keep/vlc-check.png I've tried looking through ~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc/vlrcrc for a setting that controls this, and found "metadata-network-access". If I remove the comment character and cha...