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It has been a non-terrible iTunes since long before iTunes was even a bullet point on an internal Apple strategy presentation.


Not really. It doesn’t do podcasts. It doesn’t manage video. It can’t load songs into my iPod.

Right now iTunes is still better because it has a lot of features that Winamp lacks. But the new version should address that hopefully.


It does do podcasts and video, and it can't be blamed for Apple locking it out of your iPod. No idea what other features you find it lacking, the best comparison I'm aware of[1] doesn't show a huge difference, but I've never seen the appeal of iTunes.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_player_sof...


>It can’t load songs into my iPod.

IIRC it used to be able to do that fine, before Apple locked that down, actually.


Nothing but iTunes can load songs into your iPhone, which is hardly the fault of other software.

It does videos as far as I’m aware, though it’s certainly no VLC.




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