New #VLC for WP update pushed to the store! Quite a few UI bugs fixed! It should be available in the next minutes,depending on your location
— Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen (@beauzeh) December 12, 2014
VLC app for Windows Phone was released to Beta testers on December 5, but it came with a nasty audio bug, which was fixed in the first update. The app still can’t play music when sent to background, though the dev has confirmed in a tweet that music will soon work in background.