Itunes acct, and Itunes music files...I don't see anything really wrong with either for the initial intended purpose of playback on mobile music devices. As we evolved into digitally archiving music for playback in our homes, people with high end systems didn't care much the compressed mp3 files, and I don't either for that purpose.
IIRC, his res music doesn't do anything for you so this wouldn't matter much, but the JRiver player can handle a wide variety of hi res files directly. I haven't tried any yet, and would probably still play it via the network and the Oppo DAC vs directly from the online media player.