My apologies, I wrongly understood this:...

Here's a related post about it: https://openal.opensource.creative.narkive.com/skJFvnSB/soft-algetstring-returning-null-pointer...

This is about an in-memory cache, nothing persistent.

Any form of persistent metadata caching will require strong versioning of archives, to be able to quickly determine whether the cached data is stil...

After checking the OpenAL specification I must say that it doesn't specify this possibility although I would say that it implies that it should not...

@ehofman ping as well. It's unclear to me if alGetString can return null, or if this is actually an implementation bug inside OpenAL-soft, in whic...