[kang]

I'm one of those who have no issues with iTunes.

First and foremost, iTunes is a media management tool. There are people with 100,000 songs, movies, TV shows, apps, podcasts, books, iTunes U courses, etc, etc, some stored locally, some on external drives, and it manages all of this quite well. You can have multiple iDevices, and it will sync what you want to whatever device you want, down to the individual song, if you want to do that.

The flip side of this is that any tool capable of all that will necessarily be complicated. There's a learning curve, to be sure, but I've been through it and now I'm good.

I buy music from sources other than Apple (which I think is the most expensive source out there). I have to download zip files, get the music into my library, and then sync my library to my phone. I have no issue with this.

For those with DRM music, Apple abandoned DRM in 2009 and provided a method to replace your DRM music with DRM free music. I never had the issue so I don't know the steps, but I'm sure if you search you can find it.

I don't do a lot of streaming myself, I'm often someplace where there is no signal. Plus, it uses data from my plan. I also find it skips, like say when I drive through a dead zone. It buffers some, but often not enough.