I was about to come here to post a similar question. I am about to dump my ipod seeing as I have had all I can stand of itunes. And all those who say it works better on a mac are deluding themselves its terrible there as well.
I was thinking about the galaxy player. I already own a Nexus 7 and use gizmo on it all day long but its not very portable when walking the dogs or whatever.
Looking forward to crushing my nano with a rock and getting rid of Itunes once and for all.
Music playback itself on the Galaxy S3 is superior to the iPod. I get a little more volume, and I can use a player with a FULLY ADJUSTABLE (unlike the iPod) 10 band EQ that goes down to 31Hz, making it possible to tune the playback to my listening device/conditions. The EQ alone is reason enough to switch to the Galaxy over the iPod. The DACs in the iPod may or may not be better (difficult to tell based on the reading I've done), but any gains this might give the iPod are lost due to the non-adjustable EQ, which just kills the iPod compared to the HIGHLY adjustable EQ on Android. I still have a few things to figure out, like the best way to make it so phone calls don't interrupt my music listening, but I'm figuring these things out as I go.
If the syncing issues with MC can be worked out, I'll finally have a winning combination of media management software and listening device. Ironically, however, my old iPod is still able to sync with MC while my Android device is not. I'm hopeful that this will soon change.
Larry