Sorry guys, I spoke too soon. I do have problems with Ultimate Player - the tar installation that I have been talking of.
Everything works as far as I can tell although I have not installed any of the deb files, Clementine/Ultimate Player works out of the bin folder under Ultimate Player install folder - if I double click TWICE for the first instance of the programme. Every other time I only have to double click once.
The other problem is that my RythmBox panel icon constantly flickers as though the microphone is being used and when I try to open the menu, it will not allow me to get into the menu. The menu will appear when I click the panel icon but, when I move to go into the menu, the menu disappears.
I have repeated this several times now , rebooting in-between to replicate the bug and RythmBox is only upset when I open Ultimate Player.
I don't have to play music or anything like that. I only need to open the programme.
Cheers,
Dougal.