Y'all are uncultured swine.

Foobar2000 is where it's at for listening purposes.

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I use VLC media player when on the PC. As for ipods, I hate iTunes. Look into this neat little program called Floola if you want to manage an ipod without having to use iTunes. It always worked great for me.

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I am going to flip the coin here - and defend iTunes, but maybe that is due to me being an Apple loyalist?

I have to be honest, a bunch of my friends complain about iTunes doing the same to them, and I have seen this happen many times. But I have never understood why. As Jack mentioned, iTunes simply opens the location where the file is located and plays it. Which is often why it will lag from time-to-time, especially if the file is located down multiple folder paths.

But I have to be honest, I have never had an issue with iTunes myself, or an Apple product. I have all my music on an external hard-drive that is connected to our network. iTunes seems to love this - and we have *never* had an issue with missing music. iTunes is good if you treat it as a music player. Genius is a waste of time, for me personally anyway. Ping is great for those that use it. Turn these unwanted features off, they only create lag and problems within iTunes itself.

You can also minimise iTunes to a little player on your Start Bar, which to memory reduces the power it drains from your PC.

All of that said, VLC is quality for Movies, but have never used it for Audio..

..I can only recommend Spotify, but its library is limited within certain genres, and to listen without advertisements, and offline requires a subscription. Its good if you use your smartphone or tablet to listen to music everyday - as you can download the App and register it, and your good to go. We7 is also good, but then you have no control over what you listen to - it is free however.

Goodluck finding a decent alternative..

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