I wasn't too keen on iTunes, so I bought Audion at one point. Now I use iTunes exclusively, it does everything I need, except one thing for which I keep Audion around: Audion has an MP3 editor. I recorded one whole side of a tape on my Cube, converted it to MP3, opened it up in Audion and had a very easy time of cutting it up into separate songs (copy and paste into other editor windows). I like the way iTunes handles playlists more, but thats because the only advantage Audion could have in that area is in its linked playlists (a playlist is just a folder on your HD, moving songs there is actually moving them in the finder), but in my experience, if you have a huge collection of music (like me: 5000+songs, over 21 Gigs) it's just insanely slow. Anyway, that's my two bits; anyone else is welcome to share other experience...BTW, I may have a copy of the soundjam beta for X somewhere, if I dig it up tonight I'll post back here about it.