fucking itunes blew away all my music

[BrotherLovesDub]

How does iTunes control your data? Learn to use the application before you bitch about it. Uncheck 'Keep Library Organized' and you can control where your files live. Also, I use about 20 free, user created scripts for iTunes to manage metadata. If it were extremely closed, as you say, I wouldn't be able to do that. iTunes is the best media management / playing software available. Songbird had a shot but they failed.