Add option to disable album cover background on lock screen (Android 4.4+)

On Android 4.4+, the album cover of the currently playing song replaces the background of your lock screen. In most cases this is undesirable behavior (depending on the content of the album cover) and a privacy leak. There is no option in Android to disable this "feature" (even opting to hide all notifications from the lock screen will not remove the background). The only options right now are to: root your device and use one of the Xposed modules designed to disable this feature ([http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.audio.privacy #1 (closed)] and [http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.chaimchaikin.lockscreenalbumartremover #2 (closed)]); or disable VLC notifications entirely, removing the notification controller in the process.

I am proposing a simple option in the settings to disable sending the album cover to the lock screen, so that Android does not display it as the background. I believe I have identified the line of code which sends the album cover to the lock screen, but I have no development environment or Android programming knowledge to write a patch.

file: [vlc-ports/android.git]/vlc-android/src/org/videolan/vlc/audio/AudioService.java

editor.putBitmap(MetadataEditor.BITMAP_KEY_ARTWORK, (cover.copy(cover.getConfig(), false)));

I would be very grateful if anybody could implement this option!