Ipods

[CrazyEyez]

tuq/others:

I used to feel the same about Quicktime/iTunes. But it's not really that bad. QT's default file associations are only QT audio/video/picture files. It doesn't (anymore) try to take over mp3, avi, or any other common non-apple ones. The only minor annoyance is the taskbar icon, which is easy enough to disable with a right-click->settings.

As far as iTunes - I don't really get the bad rap. I think it's a very good player. I don't even have an iPod. I'm weird - I use iTunes to manage my library/playlists, but listen to everything with Winamp. The only thing that stops me from using it as a player is that I can't shrink it down to a slim bar and/or auto-hide the playlist like winamp can. It does lack the open source add ons, but I don't think I even use any in Winamp. I love that it has built-in volume normalizer and gapless playback, which I could never seem to get working effectively in Winamp.