Unlike a lot of people out there, I really dislike iTunes.
So second to go after disabling dock from my system, iTunes is gone from my macbook. It’s really quite easy and Apple provides some very clear instructions to do so.
And I’ve been searching for an alternative player that is as clean and simple and light as foobar2000.
Well, I don’t know about light. But it’s simple. It’s Cog. And it plays a heck more formats than iTunes, including the open formats Ogg and FLAC. (MP3 is a closed format, by the way. Technically, every time you use an MP3, you owe Thomson money.)
Cog is about 15mb and to download iTunes is 64mb.
If you have an iPod (I don’t) and need to sync up without iTunes, try Floola or YamiPod. Floola also gets your Google calendar synced up as well.
If you want an iTunes that manages your music, plays more formats and is not as bloated, try Play.
In the meantime, I await Songbird to get more mature. It’s open source, multi-platform and based on Mozilla.
A week later and I’ve given up on Cog. It’s too simple. I decided I would use a player I’d already had in my system. VLC. I’m now pleased.