Its the Hi-res direct output to your DAC. Its under Settings - Backend. It’s Clementine reworked to allow this. If you don’t use a DAC in your setup, there is no real advantage.

If you use a DAC, I can recommend Strawberry for the USB to DAC support.

I will hold my breath and cross everything! The UK ministers have a nasty habit, especially in the last 15 years, of giving it away for free when aligned to the Ministers personal interests. Bent AF in Northern terms.

Plays flac. Hopefully the player will be able to output to external DAC bypassing Androids resampling machine (in the future).

I have no idea (yet) what I’ll do when I buy one.

There are a range of ways to have multiple distro’s on a single USB if they fit, but really, this is something you should just try for yourself. I did the same and ended up trying all sorts. Icurrently have a USB drive with Mint and Puppy. Mint for when I want to have a full distro and Puppy for everything else. Me personally, I find Puppy the simplest , fastest and easiest on any machine without buckefsfull of RAM. It even works on my really old laptop with 1GB.

Try Parrot OS, Home edition. Smooth, reliable, does everything well and super easy to add your favourite opensource software. It’s flagged as a security distro, but it’s actually a highly rated Distro without any of that

With the Atom processor, I had “best” result with Puppy linux whether from USB or actually installed to hard drive. I could run Lubuntu, MX, etc., Tiny core, for me, was a little too little and certainly not “fit and forget”. When I bought a new (to me) laptop with more RAM and later chipset, I still stayed with Puppy. There’s very little that can’t be done with it.

Thanks! I will read aobut each tonight and hopefully understand, but might return to you if I am struggling. My initial use case had been for watching at home rather than remotely, but if a remote access set-up is an option, then why not.

This sounds good to me. Will be able to read around it his evening.

Thanks for this - have had a look at the link and it seems just right! Very grateful.

Organic maps is OK and will get you to where you need to be, but routing is odd. It’ll sit you in the worst traffic and doesn’t know about road closures etc.

As soon as Organic Maps can route better, I’ll switch back to it for driving. Magic Earth is my current tool. For routing and traffic shaping, it’s as good as Waze. The driving / routing map (for me) is better than Waze or Google maps. I desperately want Organic Maps or OSM to work better.