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itunes consumes a lot of resources and lacks features, but...
The bigger problem is that there is ZERO reason to use anything other than foobar2000 right now. foobar can do everything that every other player can do COMBINED, plus more. You can make foobar look 100% exactly the same as any other media player, or customize it to anything imaginable. Plus, it's extremely efficient with system resources and has huge 3rd party community support. If you don't like foobar, it's because you haven't put in the effort to customize it, end of story
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Besides not having a mac version, foobar suffers the same issue that iTunes suffers and that is if you do not agree with the SOLE developers vision well you can suck it. The developer behind foobar is not really open to ideas. Yes foobar is extremely customizable on the surface but as soon as you try to do anything slightly different than how he thinks it should be done you hit a brick wall.
If you like podcast foobar is not the player for that, sure it can "do" em but it does a piss poor job at it. I believe one of my issues the last time I tried to use it was how it handled metadata, it seems on the surface to be very customizable in this aspect but it is not. Sorry I can not remember my exact issue with metadata but I remember it being one of those "its not a bug, that is how foobar does it" items.
foobar is a great app if it works for you, I have tried on many occasions to get it to work for me. I love how you can tweak it to "almost" no end, but I just could never get it to do exactly what I want. For something that you have to put a good bit of effort to configure and not get exactly what you want is just not worth it.
My list of media players that I have used in great detail include, JRiver Media Center, MediaMonkey, foobar, and iTunes. Paid copies of JRiver and MediaMonkey. They all have pluses and minuses, but I am now using iTunes because well while it is not perfect for me it is better than the others.