Soft 'N Easy Net Radio

I love to listen all day and into the evening using Windows Media Player and a small FM transmitter that allows me to listen in other rooms and outside, using a standard stereo FM radio. When I go to bed I hit the stop button on Media Player, but don't close it. Then when I get up in the morning I click on play, and away I go. My question is this. Am I taking up a slot by doing this, and depriving someone else of the pleasure of listening to Soft 'N Easy? Is music still streaming out the end of my router but not getting anywhere? Should I close Media Player completely? I'm thinking of buying an Internet radio such as the classy Noxon. When you turn a radio off like the Noxon does it disconnect from the Internet and free up a slot for someone else? Or does it just kill the music and continue to hog bandwidth?

As far as I know as long as you stop the player it will disconnect. Probably the same for the Noxon.