Arlen _G_ Holder wrote:
On Thu, 07 Nov 2019 17:07:55 -0600, *Hemidactylus* wrote:

Years ago I found the music streaming availability on iTunes with all the
genres useful. But I do recall something about Bonjour and its zeroconf
stuff being chatty over a network which was being logged by my software
firewall and was disconcerting until I figured out that was just more
expressed functionality.

Hi Hemidactylus,

All I ever care about, are the facts of the matter.

Thanks for that input on what, possibly, iTunes can do for a user, for
free, on a PC that the user wants to do, and which the user can't already
do better, without the iTunes freeware installed.
o It seems there are so many ways to 'listen to' music it's not funny.

I'm not a big music fan, but I've learned over the years that MARKETING has
a field day "providing ready-made solutions" to common needs, for people
who don't want to think all that much (e.g., data backup & recovery, DVD
ripping & burner software, snapshot & image editors, music & video players,
video & music downloaders, etc.).

In addition, I'm not sure what you exactly mean by "music streaming", where
maybe others who use iTunes for "music streaming" can expound; but I
generally quite easily freely download any music I want sans iTunes to
store, and play, on my iPods, iPads, Android devices, hard drives, flash
drives (anything in fact, that stores data), or PC.

Once downloaded (which is all automatic), I can freely "play music".

Personally, I don't "stream music" (why bother streaming when downloading
is essentially automatic anyway?), where I googled how Windows or Linux
would freely "stream music" sans iTunes.

This first hit shows 14 free Linux/Windows open-source music servers
https://www.how2shout.com/tools/best-open-source-free-music-server-software.html
1. Plex
2. Emby Server
3. Subsonic
4. Ampache ¡V Music Streaming Server
5. Madsonic
6. Airsonic
7. Serviio
8. Daphile- Dedicated Headless Music Server
9. VortexBox music server distro
10. Icecast
11. Mopidy
12. Sockso
13. Jinzora
14. Music Player Daemon

8 Free & Best Open source Video Streaming Servers Software
https://www.how2shout.com/tools/free-best-open-source-video-streaming-servers-software.html
1. Red5 Open source media server
2. MistServer Open Source
3. Kurento Media server
4. Streamhash¡V Netflix Clone Free Lite version
5. Clipbucket: Enterprise OpenSource Video Broadcasting Solution
6. Plex Media Server
7. openflixr 2
8. Opencast


6 of the Best Free Linux Music Servers
https://www.linuxlinks.com/musicservers/
1. Sockso, Personal music server for everyone
2. Jinzora, Web based media streaming and management system
3. Subsonic, Web based media streamer and jukebox
4. Icecast, Ogg Vorbis and MP3 streaming media server
5. Music Player Daemon, Server-side application for playing music
6. Firefly Media Server Media Server for the Roku SoundBridge and iTunes

9 Best music server software options: Build your own Spotify
1. Plex
2. Subsonic
3. Madsonic
4. Ampache
5. Mopidy
6. Serviio
7. Playon
8. Airsonic
9. Libresonic

The Best Sites for Streaming Free Music
https://www.howtogeek.com/365820/the-best-sites-for-streaming-free-music/
1. Spotify
2. Pandora
3. Google Play Music
4. iHeartRadio
5. SoundCloud
6. SHOUTcast
7. AccuRadio
8. Last.fm

As you can imagine, these lists went on and on (and on), where I would like
to ask someone who "streams music" what iTunes does for them on a typical
dual-boot PC that they can't do better WITHOUT iTunes with respect to
"streaming music"?

We are talking almost a decade ago but iTunes had oodles of content
available and I liked it. I don’t give a flying **** how that processes in
your ****ed up festering ****-tank you call a brain. Pandora always seemed
a silly waste of time when I have Youtube. Soundcloud is cool for limited
interest esoteric stuff. I’d rather be shot in the skull by a rusty bail
gun than stoop to Google Play Music whatever the **** that is. Sounds
horrible.