Apple's iTunes is 13 years old–and it’s still awful

Can anyone help me get iTunes completely out of my life? I use the iPod Shuffle to listen to podcasts while running, but would really prefer if I didn't need to use iTunes (or a computer connection at all) to update my feeds. Right now the only option I've really seen is a cheap, small unlocked android phone that I just use in wifi mode.

I still like (even in Windows) the player/organizer part for local music and can easily sync playlists to Android device over Wi/fi. There's no other robust and decent looking solution for that (no I wont manually look for files and create playlists, it ain't 1999).

The rest od iTunes is a different story. Since iOS9 got rid of storing apps because of app thinning, it became even more useless.