wait...itunes as in your paying for music or itunes as in just using itunes to listen to music??? i download(for free mind you) almost always using bit torrent and when that fails(which it rarely does)limewire.
Get Media Monkey I love it. It auto updates, plays all sorts of file formats. flac, M4A, ect. Has an audio converter, its awesome. and it can sync with iPods, and use a lot less system resources than iTunes. Only thins it doesnt do is play video files. If it does, I havent figured that out yet. Also I would recommend winamp, and Windows media player comes through in a pinch, tho I don't like using it.
Please don't mention P2P programs here. We don't host discussions on them. Thanks I use Winamp. It hasn't steered me wrong yet.
Winamp, it really whips the llama's something something (I don't remember the rest of the intro) I've been using winamp ever since I realized Windows media player is terrible. Plays music, plays videos, and probably a bunch of other features I never even use. manual updates, but every rose has some thorns.
I use itunes. I have a mac notebook and im too lazy to see if i can use winamp on it. On my desktop pc I use itunes also just because of the network sharing, so i can share music between my 2 computers.
I like MusicMatch JukeBox it came with the system and I've been in love with it since. I funked my Comp up a few times so I always had to download a new one but its cool. Speaking of downloading I'm bout to download once more since I recently faced problems a couple month's back. Music match rocks.