&gt; hasn&#x27;t been true since the advent of iCloud in 2011.<p>Assuming I&#x27;m using AIMP3 as my media player of choice, how would iCloud play into getting my song library onto an iPhone? Like Winamp and Foobar2000, it allows you to treat a removable drive as a media player.<p>&gt; For that sort of thing there&#x27;s VLC.<p>That&#x27;s a non-starter. Even Windows Media Player, which is probably used by a total of three people, can be extended to support any arbitrary audio codec using a documented API. I don&#x27;t get phone calls from my 90y&#x2F;o father asking how to get media to work, the codec pack that I installed guarantees that almost any codec under the sun will work with almost any Windows application (notably excluding iTunes).