[kitschpatrol]

I've found Swinsian to be a viable alternative: http://swinsian.com

[zyxley]

No file organization?

Having the files automatically organized when the metadata is updated is literally the entire reason I've stuck with iTunes so far.

[yoasif_]

HN is populated by enough "geeks" to make this recommendation relevant: use beets.

http://beets.io

It's more powerful than iTunes and can sync with databases like Discogs and Musicbrainz to keep data up to date.

[fernandotakai]

+1 for beets. works like a charm, integrates quite well with mpd, does exactly what it's supposed to.

oh and it's written in python, which means it's quite easy to hack upon it.

[BostonEnginerd]

Agreed! It has made quick work of organizing my library.

[Bartweiss]

My experience is that iTunes can't handle anything but perfectly neat metadata about album versions of songs. Every time I've fed it live music, or alternate takes, or anything else weird, it's choked so badly that I ended up wishing for no organization.

[sethhochberg]

Agreed, for a lot of people "no organization" is a feature unto itself. iTunes is famous for mangling already cleanly-organized collections of folders on disk, etc.

[scarface74]

There has been an option since 2003 for iTunes not to copy songs into its own hierarchy and just leave files where they are.