re: using an alternate music player with my 200 GB/ 50k song library, iTunes is absolutely unusable, and I completely abandoned it last year. Apple has crammed

re: using an alternate music player with my 200 GB/ 50k song library, iTunes is absolutely unusable, and I completely abandoned it last year. Apple has crammed so much into iTunes and just bloated the hell out of it, which is unsurprising for a design philosophy that layered all their media services on top of one another. My replacement has been using Rdio and Swinsian. Rdio lets me stream most of what I have in my library as well as new releases. Swinsian is still necessary for obscure or underground music I've downloaded that aren't available on streaming services, as well as my personal vinyl rips, which make up maybe 1/5 of my library. so while music consumption is definitely moving away from downloaded files to streaming, there are still niche needs for a dedicated file player. Unfortunately, with the recent news about Rdio, I have no idea what streaming service I'm gonna migrate to. Audio nerds recommend Tidal, my family uses Spotify, so I'll probably give those two and Apple Music a trial spin and evaluate.