OK then. This is not sounding good (and I'm sorry, )p( if what you suggested in the last post is a way of doing what I'm after; I'm afraid what you said has gone over my head a bit).
Just to clarify - after switching to playing music through JRiver in WASAPI - Event style because I'm advised that gives a quality, bit perfect output, via Firewire, to my DAC, I have found anything else I try to do with audio; like listen to internet radio, Spotify, play YouTube stuff etc. doesn't work.
Is there a way to configure the computer so it does, so that I can just switch from one to the other (as I do with Apple/iTunes/PureMusic)?