Hate! Hate! Hate! I wanna Hate on iTunes, too!

I ditched it. I had an iPhone 3GS for two years - great product, except for iTunes - but my next phone was an Android. And the phone after that, too.

With an Android phone, I can load any music player I want, keep my music in almost any format I want, and all of the mainstream Android devices have MicroSD card slots. Android phones almost all have replaceable batteries (unfortunately, the tablets tend to not).

Choose wisely, PT. You can get an Android phone or small tablet to take the place of that old iPod. Heck you don't even need high capacity; just carry a few 64gb MicroSD cards in your wallet and swap when you want to listen to one thing or another. It's not like you'd be swapping cards every 5 or 10 tracks, and there's no way that you'll listen to all 160gb of music on a single flight, even on a long-haul, so swapping cards instead of pre-loading everything onto the onboard memory is not a deal-breaker.

And you still have a choice - you can either buy an Android phone to serve as a combined device, i.e. your phone and media player in one, or you can buy a second, separate, used Android phone that's no longer on a carrier, and use it just for music, the way you use your iPod.

And then you can kick @#$%@ iTunes to the curb.