No, it's not just you. I'm the same - I dislike those programs like iTunes, Picasa etc etc etc that want to "manage" your media collections. The problem is just about all of them manage their supported media in their own way, making no allowances for any other software or formats they don't support. I much prefer to create my own media storage in one place, organised just how I like it - I double-click the file I want and it opens in the app I choose to open it. I'm almost embarrassed to admit I use the same folder structure now as I did under Windows 3 (ahhh, the days of Program Manager...)