I’ve got sound working through USB to my Dac for both file audio and Internet content now.
It would have been better if I had written how I achieved this as I fiddled, but I didn’t so I’m not sure how I got this to work. I’m sorry, it would have been helpful to post a solution for others.
Anyway, it ...

Thank you both, mikesir and bigpup.
@bigpup
I'm using duckduckgo on firefox.
Yes, audio from UTube and any other sound file from the intenet.
I did manage to get audio from the net working but only through analogue output using the inbuilt dac in the PC.
I was in desperate fiddle mode by then so I'm ...

I have recently installed (frugal) Xenial Puppy 7.5 32 bit on my desktop computer.
AMD Athlon (tm) 64 x2 6000+
3360 usable RAM
Audio Adapter HSA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
Asus M3A-H/HDMI Motherboard.

I feed audio through USB to an HRT Dac
I use DeadBeef as the audio player
My music is stored on a WD ...

I’ve recently replaced Windows XP with Xenial Puppy 7.5 32-bit.
I tried various other distributions that get recommended on the Internet for low powered hardware and old machines.
I probably shouldn’t mention the other distributions I tried; five in all, each had problems for the novice user and two ...

Hi Idolise.

I’m a bit surprised there isn’t a queue of frustrated audio enthusiasts, Linux wannabes, much like myself standing in line to shake your hand.
No worries, let me be the first then.

I’ve got Voyage MPD running on a music server atm thanks to considerable help from a friend who “knows