VLC

Discovered cmus last year and fell in love with it. It has everything I need from a music player (love vi-like key bindings!).

I vote for Audacious. A use also XMMS and Amarok. For a chance someone know what is the difference in XMMS and XMMS2? I alway play and minimize so I never compared...

any chance to include emacs? I listen music from there too xD (is a joke)

I like Clementine as well as Audacious and RhythmBox.

Regards
Philip

MOC is all I need.
For some reason I don't like using GUI audio media players.

Banshee is slow and clunky and buggy, but it's still my choice. It works better than the others I've tried. I primarily listen to podcasts with my audio player, and Banshee's playlist/music library handling works best for a library that changes every day.

Rhythmbox can't seem to grasp the concept that I'd want to delete an audio file as soon as I'm done listening to it.

I agree. GUI is not really helpful in playing music, IMO.

If the GUI can display album art, it can be useful information. Here's a screenshot of one I'm working on:

http://duganchen.ca/quetzalcoatl-2-0-screenshot

Nice work and I'm sure a lot of people will find it useful but it's not appealing to me. Personally I either actively LISTEN to music (no need for any distractions) or passively listen to it in the background while doing something completely unrelated (again no need for GUI). The really rare occasions when I want to look at the album art or lyrics do not justify the need for running an audio program that would keep connecting to the internet or unnecessarily hog my resources.

Obviously, these are my personal preferences and I'm aware that a lot of people might find such big programs like eg. Amarok genuinely useful.

shell-fm, and moc. Other than mplayer/smplayer and vlc I do not have a GUI audio player installed.

Agreed. Love Clementine.

+1

Geeze... all this fondness for curses based stuff - we must be old Unix grey beards or something...

I use mplayer in command line to play audio but its not in the list.

Active music players for linux:

Amarok
Aqualung
aTunes
Audacious
Banshee
Beep Media Player
cmus
Clementine
DeaDBeef
Decibel Audio Player
Exaile
gmusicbrowser
JuK
Listen
mpg123
MPD
MOC
Music Player Daemon
Quod Libet
Rhapsody
Rhythmbox
Sonata
XMMS
Zinf