Well, your computer has an operating system and other components a simple "thin client" device does not have. SB players are "thin clients" that require a connection to a server to function. And, actually, whatever program on your computer is playing the station stream is basically acting as the "server" per se.
Absent a server some of the SB players have limited abilities like play from the line-in source and/or will (should) function as an alarm clock with a basic audio alarm (no stream). As for Roku I'd guess that your Roku player connects to the online Roku server without you even knowing it. But again, I've never used a Roku player so this is just a guess. My Yamaha AVR connects to (and only to) the vTuner online server. -- toby10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72222 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
