I'll jump on the iTunes hate bandwagon.

Really, I cannot for the life of me understand how Apple developed such a bloated, bug ridden and downright obtuse piece of software. I don't have a Mac so I have no idea if the 'experience' is any better, but for this Windows 7 PC user, I have given up altogether with iTunes.

My 64G iPhone 5 is no longer used for music. I have a SanDisk Sansa Clip Zip with a 64Gb MicroSD with Rockbox firmware. It is so small it fits in my Sony noise cancelling headphone case. Best thing - plug it into a windows machine and I see two drives, one is the internal 4GB memory and the second is the 64G GB MicroSD. File management is totally up to me.....

Oh and video on my iPad Mini is accomplished with a 1TB Patriot Gauntlet Node connected via WiFi-N with VLC streaming directly from the Gauntlet with SMB. File management is as simple as dragging files across a USB-3 connected HDD from my Network connected PC.... There are alternatives for Apples' p1ss poor software.