Audacity cannot browse /media directory even if it has permissions

I'm running Ubuntu 24.10. My /media directory (the usual mountpoint for external HDD) has the following permissions: $ ls -l / | grep media drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 mag 16 2024 media The owner is root but it has permissions to execute (aka enter) the directory. From normal user I can do: $ ls /media/ mark root if I run Audacity as normal user (installed from snap) and try to open an audio file it refuses to enter the /media directory: > Error opening directory /media: Permission denied I tried: sudo chmod -R a+rxw /media/ but nothing has changed. What should I do in order to let Audacity entering this directory?