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The killer feature of itunes for me is the library management — I drag & drop the mp3's, if they're tagged correctly it will handle them at ease, auto organizing the directory and files and copying them at the right place. If some other tool can do this, even CLI ones, I would gladly hear about them !

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While it's not drag & drop, you should take a look at beets (http://beets.radbox.org/). It's written in Python and has fairly active development. It uses the MusicBrainz database for cataloging music and is pretty customizable as far as directory structure etc.

My iTunes does that just fine.

Yes, but library sharing with non iTunes/Apple box is no easy pie. Backup and transfer too are a pain in the ass - but well it is not like it happen everyday. And that without even speaking of his weight, which seem to grow with each minor version for no good reason. So while it is (for me) a good tool to organise and browse my library, it's limitation can be irritating, more often than not.

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