Postby lost un » 17 Oct 2023 00:03
Yes, this is an important feature request, to disable caching. At last I allowed updating my old version of VLC to 3.0.19, and found that, first off, when it started, it really hogged the processor, and afterwards I found that it had copied every picture from our extensiv Media Library (all sound) into its cache. Of course, I deleted the whole tree beginning at art. I had recourse to a device mentioned in another troubleshooting post, making an art with no directory access, but then, as stated in that post, VLC shows no album-art at all.
Seems to me that the developers set up the pictures to come only from the cache; if not there, an on-line picture is found for storing in the cache, unless the user forbids that, and only at last is a picture found in the loaded sound-file s metadata. For my use, and many others s, too, it seems to me, that is so wrong. We want the picture from the sound-file, and from no other source, with no cache to fill the disk up with.
I uninstalled 3.0.19, and reverted to the old 2.2.3, and will, as I have been doing, regularly delete the to me useless cache. And I want to see the pictures.