I decided to give Winamp (version 5.601) another try. I’ve tried a number of other players, but all of them lack the true basics necessary for my needs.
However if you look carefully you might find some scripts that can do the work for you, but still it’s a long way to go (I tried!). Mediamonkey is another nice player with a lot of features, but can’t seem to read XML-files from iTunes. For example: Songbird, which reads the XML-file very well but dropped iPod support, probably they are afraid of Steve Jobs. Some are really nice, but lack iPod support. Now I looked around and tested a lot of players out there. synchronize the music library with an iPod.transfer important music library data from iTunes such as artist, album, songtitle, tracknumber, play count (!), last play date (!), ratings, … (by means of the iTunes library XML-file or through a simple workaround).Requirements for a good alternative to iTunes Moving from one player to another would be very easy if you hadn’t been upgrading like a good citizen into one of the latest iTunes releases where you followed the candytrail into the sealed fortress. I don’t need any other software stuffed down my throat containing drivers, connectors, features, ads,… for Apple hardware which I’m not planning to buy! In my case I just need a mediaplayer (music player) for Windows that manages a music library and makes it easy to synchronize with my iPod Classic. Unfortunately the iTunes software keeps getting bigger with no benefit whatsoever. It’s a player that really likes to hijack file associations. First of all I wanted to get rid of Quicktime. It took me a long while to find a decent alternative for iTunes.
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