Daniel Semyonov <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > In the last few months (not sure since when exactly) I've noticed the my > EMMS cache is taking a very long time to load. A few days ago I had > some free time to investigate and I realized that my cache file was over > 4 GB in size (with around 1000 tracks). Further investigation revealed > that for each track a value called 'info-metadata_block_picture' was > saved, which I'm assuming is the embedded album art encoded in some way. > Removing this value (by adding a function to 'emms-info-functions' which > sets it to nil) shrunk my cache to under 3 MB. > > AFAICT, this value isn't used by EMMS, so maybe it shouldn't be saved to > the cache in the first place? > > Regards, > Daniel > > (Please keep me CC'd, I'm not subscribed to the list)
That's the base64-encoded cover art for vorbis. We can indeed skip putting that in the cache. Thanks for reporting this. -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
