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Originally Posted by VAXman
The thing to remember is that iTunes is a collections of myriad functions including playing Video. Personally, I would have preferred Apple to divorce the Video from iTunes and create an iVideo/iWatch/iTV application but they did not. It's like a single guy with a sedan. He really only uses one seat but the others are still there. Should he buy a motorcycle? Or, stick with the sedan in case he wants to pick up a videographer, a database manager, a shopper and TV broadcaster?
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I don't have a problem with the designpoint. A 5th gen iPod or better can do video so the application that supports syncing it should do all of the work necessary to feed it data. I've been using iTunes as soon as it became available and was using MusicMatch before that (this is what Apple was shipping with the Gen I iPod).
Let's say you have a lot of music stored locally. In order for iTunes to start, it needs to read some XML files. If the library it manages is large enough, you may need to wait anywhere from 30 to 60 seconds just to open iTunes application. Same on the closing side when it writes the XML back out to disk apparently. This isn't a big deal to me if I need to deal with managing updates to the iPod.
But when it comes to listening to AuralMoon, I've gotten spoiled by the "instant on" aspect of smaller applications like XMP, or running PocketTunes on the Treo 650.