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You're not alone - I more or less bailed around the iPhone/iTunes start, once amazon gave me a way to 'own' my music outside of an OS/hardware dependent ecosystem, I left. Apple makes everything wonderful if you never leave their walled garden, but I operate linux servers, I support mac engineers, and I provide service to windows clients. The only OS that makes supporting all three harder is macOS.

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//but I operate linux servers, I support mac engineers, and I provide service to windows clients

obviously that's not normal use case for a normal person and not being able to do that wouldn't even be in anyone's wildest radar.

Interestingly. Thats the main reason im still on an iPhone.

I dont use Apple Music or iTunes anymore, it has caused too many headaches.

But i DO use PlexAmp. And it works great, works with FLAC, will transcode, and allows you to selectively cache things.

Its not perfect. There are hiccups with transitioning to Carplay for example. But in general, if not for PlexAmp, i likely would have ditched iPhones after having them since roughly the 3gs (with a few google/Android phones smattered in between, namely the Nexus One and Galazy Nexus).

> The only OS that makes supporting all three harder is macOS.

How is Windows easier in this regard? Managing Windows clients requires a whole cluster of Microsoft services, no?

You can use AD on Linux as well though, either joining a windows domain or running one from linux with LDAP afaik.

Define "managing" and "whole cluster".

For basics you only need a one machine with Active Directory role installed. Everything else depends on the needs.

You can download all your itunes music onto your local HD for archiving, and in fact itunes will detect they have better versions of your current music (if you add it to the library) and download the better version.

Is there something specific you found unacceptable?

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