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Seems like there is some pretty weird permissions stuff going on with /mnt/media_rw. The file browser and terminal can go there, but only when running as root. I have tried symlinking to a directory on the sdcard, but that didn't seem to work.

Ah, so looking at mount is revealing: /dev/block/vold/179:33 /mnt/media_rw/sdcard1 ext4 rw,dirsync,context=u:object_r:sdcard_external:s0,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,data=ordered 0 0 /dev/fuse /storage/sdcard1 fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 ...

So ls did not like -h for some reason. ls showed the files, but adding -l meant nothing showed up. cat did not seem to want to read the files (similar error "Function not implemented" to VLC). u0_a57@jfltexx:/storage/sdcard1/Music/Clean Bandit/New Eyes (Deluxe Version) $ ls 01 - Mozart's H...

What do you mean my git-annex backend? There is nothing special going on, the files are just symlinks, and I checked that the symlinks were good by using my desktop machine (when I had the sdcard in my desktop machine, cvlc played them fine). Here is a log extract that might help, the ogg file is a ...

I just tried using ext4 on my sdcard, this allows me to use git-annex easier (without using direct mode). Storing my music in git-annex means that the files *.ogg are symlinks, VLC can see the files, but cannot play them. Is this supported? I can provide some log outtakes if helpful, but I imagine t...