Five Alternatives to iTunes 10 for Easily Managing Your iPod/iPhone
 

When you think of iTunes, you might think of clunky, slow, and bloated software that isn’t always the easiest to use. If you’re looking for something that allows you to manage iPod/iPhone content easier, today we look at some free and commercial alternatives.

Even with the recent release of iTunes 10, speed and performance hasn’t been addressed in any meaningful way. We have covered some tips to make iTunes run faster, but if you’re a geek who wants as as little to do with iTunes as possible, we’ll look at some quality alternatives.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/29716...ing-your-ipod/

actually quite happy with iTunes, was using Winamp before to "manage" my music library, but was convinced to use iTunes with the smart playlists feature to filter through music and rate it accordingly, the genius mixes are also easy to use by the layman;

combine itunes with apple airport and "remote" app on ipod touch/iphone and you got music playing throughout your house controlled with a remote inside your phone:D