Plus, you can turn your device into a jukebox and play music any time. The company itself is eroding goodwill towards their brand.The software also supports web radio stations, podcasts and SoundCloud integration so you can play the music you want. These are all ideas that the folks at Apple could take on board. I'm becoming more intolerant of being herded down a forced upgrade path that only 'suits the Suits' at Apple. It would greatly help if Apple would stop releasing Beta versions as Paid Apps. Apps and processes do not work as advertised. Talk to any decent IT Tech head about some of the various gotcha's and issues involved in maintaining a Media Network with iTunes as the Player. Media players should work cleanly over a network out of the box as advertised. I've used VLC on Mac for years in Professional AV Applications and, and have literally staked my professional reputation on it in very critical situations. This is quite possible with VLC and other 'Lite' Players. In an ideal world, you should be able to to keep ONE large audio file library, with a Player that will easily handle mp3, mp4, BWF, AIFF, FLAC, etc. In 2013, the inability to deal with different multimedia file formats is ridiculous. Heard the one about people having ALL of their WAV Files Deleted when upgrading to iTunes 11?

In fact, I've found over the years that it worked better for me to keep 2 libraries, both with back-ups due to the various 'Gotcha's'. The need to have to keep and maintain a separate iTunes library is ridiculous. Search functionality is not what it could be in comparison to other Apps out in the marketplace. )Īspects of the file & folder system are ridiculously out of date.

The Genius Bar? (An oxymoron if there ever was one. Apple's focus seems to now be mainly on the look of the player, and App Store functionality, and add-ons & gimmicks. More and more, the functionality and the things that I originally liked it for, are being stripped away with each subsequent release. From where I'm sitting, what started as a great idea, is in danger of becoming an unfocused and bloated application thats trying to be many things, but can't do any one thing REALLY WELL.

I still like and use iTunes, but I'm transitioning over to using Songbird and other Apps. What are some differences you are looking for in an alternative?Fair call. But it plays back music and has playlists. I've seen a lot of people complain, and I'm sure there are alternatives. I'm curious what you don't like about iTunes?

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