After using VLC to play music on my Pixel 5A since I got the phone, VLC seemed to have stopped working with the release of Version 3.5.3 on November 3. My phone has Android 13.
All my music (both .mp3 and .wma files) is still listed in VLC, and is visible as Artists, Albums, and Tracks. But whenever I try to play anything, I get the message "Multiple Media File Cannot Be Played".
Strangely, if I use the phone's Files app to open Internal Storage and browse to the folder with my music, then select a music file, then select "Open With", then select "VLC", all files play without any problems.
Is this a VLC problem? Is there some setting I can check? Should I downgrade to an earlier version?