With six rio's, they should all have independant access to the music. With streamsicle, i would have to have six different streamsicles running on the pc. Sometimes its just a quick and easy selection you want to make without having pc access, so the rio (although crappy) LCD will do. Also, things like repeat, skip forward can't be done locally as well. I know its a bit like having your cake and eating it, but its something i could have done if i could have upgraded to jrec 0.2.4/5 sucessfully.