> Same here, I never understood why people were initially so enthousiastic about iTunes or other players after Winamp that tried to hide your audio files behind

> Same here, I never understood why people were initially so enthousiastic about iTunes or other players after Winamp that tried to hide your audio files behind a convoluted GUI and that abstracted the files on disk into a crappy, opaque database. I still use iTunes. The filing system on-disk is identical to what I was doing anyway. iTunes Media > Music > Artist > Album > nn Song Name (Indeed, I point Plex at the same folder and am slowly migrating over to using it rather than the built-in sharing for network playback.) It's all that extra stuff that can only be done by storing data structures elsewhere: playlists, random by genre, etc, that requires the convoluted GUI and opaque database.