Alternative to iTunes?

Foobar is nice and very lightweight.

Google music is also good. It isn't a separate program. You just run it in your web browser. It also works as a great way to backup your collection in case of a hard drive failure. You'll be able to stream your music from it to any kind of smartphone, whether or not it's a track that they have on their store.

I use my old boombox and cds.........Starting to feel behind the times. I might just put some mo3s on my zip disk.

personally, i prefer winamp and using folder structures to organise my music.

There is one Russian Winamp clone that turned out to be better than the original. It's called AIMP. Wonderful player overall. Its library management and playlist features are inferior to the ones of iTunes (pretty much any other music player is inferior to iTunes in these terms) but its playback features are far more superior. So depending on what is more important to you for your music listening experience (more supported formats and better audio quality or a pretty library and smart playlists) you may either love it or hate it.

I didn't know people actually willingly used iTunes as a music player.