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Amazing! It worked!

I thought I had tried this before, but I must have done something wrong with removing the previous snap version. I followed your two steps and voila!

Thanks.

I am having a lot of trouble opening up any files from any other hard drives in VLC. Elsewhere, a fix was posted to allow running VLC as root (hexedit /usr/bin/vlc, replace geteuid with getppid), but vlc is not in /usr/bin anymore. I tried installing vlc via command line but I get a "broken pac...

Bingo! It took me awhile to see where to change the encoding in VLC, but for my tag editor (I use kid3-qt), it was clear as can be.

Thanks for that tip!

I have a large number of audio (MP3) files, hand-entered with Unicode (in this case, Thai) titles, that do not display file names or titles correctly when playing. These should display as, for example, ปราสาทไหว and instead display as ????????. Media Information looks much the same. Meanwhile, the t...