vlc stable 3.0.1-4-g14a4897 is almost always not able to connect to ALSA (fresh ubuntu Bionic install).
I say sometimes cause once a sudo chown $USER:$USER /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf + reboot helped…
…but then another reboot will deactivate alsa again but only for snaps?
I have no clue but am willing to help!
Ends with an error similar to Spotify does not play audio and Call for testing: VLC 3.0.0-rc1
Can confirm audio works otherwise: able to open the same video with vlc from apt & from within Chrome.
∀ snap --version
snap 2.32.6
snapd 2.32.6
series 16
ubuntu 18.04
kernel 4.15.0-20-generic