lemmy999;432892 Wrote: 
> Ports 9000 and 3483 are blocked by my work.  So my router at home I
> forward port 80 to 9000 on my home computer running SqueezeCenter (port
> 80 is open) and port 443 to port 3483 on my SqueezeCenter computer.  I
> can open windows media player and play the stream.mp3 file just fine so
> I know that the music is streaming properly over 80 to my work.  When I
> try SoftSqueeze 3.7 or 3.9b1 I can navigate around and select a song to
> play, but it never plays.  It just sits there with the time bar at 0:00.
> I look on the web interface of squeezecenter and the player shows up and
> the song that I added to play with SoftSqueeze shows up as playing on
> the SoftSqueeze player, but I am getting no sound.
> 
> Also, I see that SSH is recommended for streaming, but why is it
> needed?  It always worked for me in the past to just forward the two
> ports and run SoftSqueeze.
ssh is recommended for security reasons, because you're opening up your
home computer to the internet. See
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/ConnectingRemotely. I don't know
much more than that, because my solution to tunes at work is to play
directly from the external USB drive that I keep in the office as an
off-site backup of all my data from home (including FLACs).


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