>> people have complained about it approximately since it was released

and I ain't gonna stop complaining until I find a suitable music player to replace it!

>You need to integrate the famous iTunes into this thesis.

Desktop iTunes is a dumpster fire, but their iOS software is what I was specifically referring to.

I actually liked some of the versions of iTunes for Windows back when I had to use it with an iPod Touch around 2008 to 2012 or so. For just playing music from my music library, the interface wasn't bad. You just had to turn off the option to automatically convert everything into Apple's format.

iTunes has always felt robust and well-architected, but it's UI has been a dumpster fire since whenever.

"This app is preventing shutdown". Yep, it's always iTunes.

No way. I regularly have problems with it hanging or just ceasing to respond to “play” command. Ana this in on OS X, not windows.