For music theres nothing better than foobar....lots of options to customize as per your taste and even great dsp plugins like dolby...
Well for me android wins hands down....don't really like the closed gates approach of apple towards their products !!!
I also faced similar situations in the past and was resolved as something to do with port forwarding...you may check if you have port forwarding...
been using nod32 since ages....have no complains.....
