Re: Where do you get your music?
Presumably because Apple thinks you'll appreciate their way of doing things. I actually quite like it; it makes for very many useful benefits; if nothing else you get a very nice jukebox and media manager. But I've no doubt Saint Jobs was well aware that the sex appeal of Apple's hardware products would be a useful draw for iTunes and its store, too. Just like proprietary media players that only used Windows Media Player's DRM would be just the thing for Microsoft's coffers, for instance. Of course you may provide substitutes for the bits of iTunes that you wouldn't otherwise get (remote and AirPlay, mostly) but it'll be much harder. File-based access only goes so far. You could use something like Stream To Me to get something like iTunes Match without the cloud. UPnP AV as opposed to AirPlay. Bluetooth or infra-red remotes. And so on. But only iTun
es wraps it all up in a pretty package that's joyful to use if you're willing to make a few concessions and work a bit harder to get your files all tagged.
Ah, Softonic. I fear that was your mistake. Don't grab files from them again. They are now just like the other parasites CNet download.com, FileHippo, Softpedia, SourceForge and, tragically, MacUpdate. Just do not download from third-party sites.
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