Aaah! Audion... fond memories. I quite dislike iTunes and I'm sure many share this sentiment, I wish they had attempted to keep up and go head to head with iTunes instead of retiring the product.
If, today, they brought it up to 2009 standards, and added iPod support, I'd bet they could take a good chunk of iTunes' marketshare on the Mac!
Yes, a lot of people share that sentiment, but a lot don't. iTunes popularized the notion of organizing your music around a central database of meta data, an approach that allowed for far more flexibility and ease of use. Of course, you always come across the folks who think organizing your music on your file system is genius. These people probably think unix is better than Plan 9, too.
Last I checked it was also rather buggy. As in, it messed up almost any time I attempted to add song to my library, couldn't handle songs or artists special characters, and the iPod support was iffy. I like the UI and addons, but it has a long way to go before being usable.
Thanks for the heads up on vox! It's definitely showing some promise. There is also http://cogx.org/, but it's very buggy and there hasn't been an update on the site in over a year :(
Cog http://cogx.org/ is a nice reaaaaal simple MP3 player for OS X. I use it for whenever I want to just play one or two tracks from MP3 blogs without adding anything to my large, unwieldy, iTunes Library.
Reposted many times but it's one of the best stories that has been linked to on HN (has everything: Apple, Jobs, boot-strapping, cutthroat competition, highs/lows, enterpreneurial journeys)
