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kyteflyer · 05-09-2014, 10:18 AM

There's Songbird, too, but as soon as you want to manage other-than-music on your iDevice, you need iTunes. You *can* just do it all over wifi and never touch itunes, but I have found (yes even on my mac) that there can be pitfalls with that (for example, a failed iOS update which left my iPad unusable until I plugged it in and restored it via iTunes). I also use iTunes and my computer for backups in preference to iCloud. But thats just me.

If you have an idevice and nothing has ever gone wrong with it through *not* using iTunes, you're lucky.

05-09-2014, 10:18 AM	#50
kyteflyer Wizard Posts: 1,844 Karma: 9547754 Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Newcastle, Australia Device: iPhone 12 Mini	There's Songbird, too, but as soon as you want to manage other-than-music on your iDevice, you need iTunes. You can just do it all over wifi and never touch itunes, but I have found (yes even on my mac) that there can be pitfalls with that (for example, a failed iOS update which left my iPad unusable until I plugged it in and restored it via iTunes). I also use iTunes and my computer for backups in preference to iCloud. But thats just me. If you have an idevice and nothing has ever gone wrong with it through not using iTunes, you're lucky.