CNET's Donald Bell compares Apple's iTunes Match cloud music service to Amazon's Cloud Player, recently updated with scan and match song identification and a paid tier with a 250,000-song limit.

SkiniTunes 1.0.5 works flawlessly with the most recent 8.1.1.10 version of iTunes, and it uses between 4 and 6 megabytes of RAM, about ten percent of what iTunes will be using at any given time.

I love my iPod, but I don't like using iTunes on my computer. What's the best way to use a different desktop player while still syncing my music and playlists to an iPod or iPhone? We all feel ...

As the Foobar2000 site observes, this is an "advanced" audio player, meaning that it isn't as user-friendly as iTunes. In audio quality, however, it is superior.

But iTunes will minimize to a mini player that is relatively large and can bother you. To stop iTunes from going to the mini player, you must edit your task bar settings and an iTunes setting.

iTunes is bloated. If you just want to play some mp3s like you did in the old days, try Tiny Player for Mac .Download, drag to Applications, and open ...

Windows Media Player 11 also catches up to iTunes by simplifying the process of collecting a set of songs to transfer to a player or burn to a CD -- and it passes Apple's software by letting you ...

Highlight a song title in iTunes, right click it and from the menu choose "get info." Under the heading called "kind," see if the song format is AAC (works only on Apple players) or MP3.

Google’s Music Manager can scan various applications for new music, including iTunes and Windows Media Player on the PC. iTunes Match requires the song to be imported into the music library or ...

If iTunes would pay attention to what users are doing and respond in a way that helps them do it instead of sitting there like a dumb rock, they'd be a lot happier using it. MAKE IT MODULAR.

Never mind though, because now the much-needed iTunes revamp is available to download. iTunes 11 has a new look that's more in line with the style seen on iOS software.

Onto the long list of "things I wish I had when I worked in an office cubicle" I'm adding the Avvenu Music Player, which gives you remote access to your ...