In some way currently I actually regard that as an advantage – iTunes might have its foibles, but the hard split between e.g. Music and Podcasts that happened on Mac definitively isn't something I'm looking forward to.
That's because I've found the Podcasts section of iTunes actually quite useful for also managing my collection of radio comedy, e.g. to get the nice at-a-glance listened/unlistened episode display. With unified iTunes it's simply a matter of adding those files (which are only rarely native podcasts and usually have been scrounged together from all sorts of various sources) to my music library and then manually setting the media type to "Podcast", but on a Mac post-split-up that no longer works, and the successor Podcasts app apparently allows no manual file management.
So I'd either have to manually hack the database, or more likely set up a fake local podcasts server, or just give up entirely and switch to something else (which might still mean having to set up a fake podcasts server anyway in order to sync the episodes to my phone).
At least on Windows iTunes update and general compatibility aren't as directly tied to the OS itself as on Mac, so if push came to shove, I could just keep on using iTunes – the only slight annoyance would be if compatibility with the iTunes store would eventually break…
In some way currently I actually regard that as an advantage – iTunes might have its foibles, but the hard split between e.g. Music and Podcasts that happened on Mac definitively isn't something I'm looking forward to.
That's because I've found the Podcasts section of iTunes actually quite useful for also managing my collection of radio comedy, e.g. to get the nice at-a-glance listened/unlistened episode display. With unified iTunes it's simply a matter of adding those files (which are only rarely native podcasts and usually have been scrounged together from all sorts of various sources) to my music library and then manually setting the media type to "Podcast", but on a Mac post-split-up that no longer works, and the successor Podcasts app apparently allows no manual file management.
So I'd either have to manually hack the database, or more likely set up a fake local podcasts server, or just give up entirely and switch to something else (which might still mean having to set up a fake podcasts server anyway in order to sync the episodes to my phone).
At least on Windows iTunes update and general compatibility aren't as directly tied to the OS itself as on Mac, so if push came to shove, I could just keep on using iTunes – the only slight annoyance would be if compatibility with the iTunes store would eventually break…