First of all, how are your friends connecting and attemting to play
music?  What players are they using at their end? What format is the
music stored in on your server?

If they are trying to stream high bitrate music across the internet it
is likley that this will fail as the player at their end cannot get
enough data fast enough to enable playing of a continuous stream.  You
will need to set up bitrate limiting for the remote players such that
the streams get transcoded to a suitable mp3 format prior to sending. 


Secondly, having your ports open is a little dangerous as you are
enabling access to your slimserver to anybody who can hit your ip
address. This would include the neat trick of selecting a suitable song
and feeding it to your player (ideally if you have one called "bedroom")
at maximum volume at 3am.  I would hope you are using some form of
security such as ssh.

davep


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