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I will happily continue using iTunes over anything that uses a slice of citrus as the volume slider.

..and I will happily not use iTunes at all. A music player unable to play FLAC (a free codec) that was released 14 years ago.

A nice operating system with a bad media player.

Not only a bad media player, but one which the OS ties so tightly to the keyboard's media control functions that there seems no reliable way of prying them loose.

Not my biggest OS X annoyance, but easily in the top five.

iTunes isn't an option for those on Linux, or who don't use proprietary software.

I tend to control volume using the system's volume slider, the media keys on my keyboard and the hardware knob on my speakers. If I want per-application volume control, I can do that for all applications with pulseaudio. Clementine's volume control UI is very low in my application-choosing decision tree.

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