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Goodbye iTunes
I just ran across a nice Free Software audio player called aTunes. It is written in Java, so it may not be possible to implement it in a fully Free Software environment (yet). Still, it is a nice iTunes replacement (on Windows especially).
It of course plays your music, syncs with your iPod, downloads podcasts, has support for more codecs and formats, implements Audioscrobbler and last.fm and other goodies, and in general is a nice client. The big drawback for some will be the lack of iTunes Music Store support and the inability to play DRMed files. I am using it as my primary player on a Windows box at work, and it does just fine.
Similar options for Unixy systems include Banshee and Amarok (which after being ported to Windows for version 2 will be my personal recommendation for a Windows audio player).
