Oh, I didn't know you were on a Mac - iTunes is three times as shit on Windows. Thanks for the heads up on Google Music, I happen to have my music library backed up on a drive so I'll be fine. All Access is nice though.
I haven't seen iTunes Win since 2006 but at the time, I recall wondering why you'd run it over, say, Winamp. I'm not surprised to hear it's gotten worse. On the plus side there are viable alternatives on the Win side. On the Mac side?
Right... but if I want to keep a library organized, share the XML over the network, control it remotely via my phone or sync it with my devices, I still need iTunes. That's the real problem with everything on the Mac side - iTunes is damn near an extension of the Finder, which means you can't do shit without it. It sucks.