Audacious GTK+, playing through my Sound Blaster Audigy Rx and my *OLD* Logitech Z680 speaker system (which is actually truly kick-butt! I can make my place vibrate to the end of the trailer!!).

I have a decent sized music collection that I used to listen to a lot using Foobar2000 and Strawberry (a fork of clementine), but in the last year or so I've started using Spotify for most of my music listening.. been using the actual program instead of the web player (though the distinction is moot since I believe Spotify is an electron app).

I run it with alltray so that I can have it in KDE's system tray. I use the dbus commands in shell scripts set to custom keyboard shortcuts in KDE so that my ancient muscle memory from my Winamp days still apply. (ctrl+alt+pgdown for next track, pgup for previous, home for play/pause.. though the playpause script checks to see if spotify is running and if not it will start it). I've messed around with things like spot-tui and another ncurses program I can't remember the name of to play around

I attribute this shift simply to the reality that my work situation completely precludes the use of my own music collection.. spotify is available to me so although I loathe to admit it I have found its monthly premium subscription to be beneficial to my sanity.

Going further down what I do music wise on Slackware... I generally wander around my house using a wireless RF headset that has pretty good range, so if I'm listening to spotify on my desktop and I'm in another room sometimes I'll use my phone with the spotify app's built in tool for changing what is playing on other clients.

Though moving beyond Spotify I also run shairport-sync. This is a reverse engineering of Apple's AirPlay protocol. I'll occasionally use AirPlay from either my phone or one of the several Apple TVs throughout my house. A use case I have sometimes is working in my kitchen I'll have spotify playing some music while the kitchen Apple TV is playing YouTube (often gameplay footage). I'm able to adjust Spotify and AirPlay volume independently from one another so I can mix it however I want.

Audacious with this skin http://www.winampskins.info/2933/Steel-This-Amp.html
most of those skins work with XMMS too, but I prefer Audacious because XMMS
doesn't have a plugin to show the cover image.

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I always liked playing music in xine with the oscope visualisation running, but mostly I just use 'play' from the sox suite, or mplayer if it's a format not supported by sox (such as m4a/aac — but I don't have many of those).

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I agree foobar2000 is great media player. But how do you use it? Is aimed at Windows platform. If on wine then it does not have direct access to devices.

VLC, if I'm just listening. SND if I'm editing/analyzing.

clementine, strawberry, VLC, mpv, smplayer

deadbeef

Audacious

xmms 1.2.11, (rarely resorting to VLC for the more obscure formats.)

I play my music on mp3 and occassionally FLAC/Ape formats.

I used clementine/strawberry, sayonara and deadbeef. Now I use Audacious since they adopted a Qt frontend and that blends well with the Plasma desktop, although it has some UI quirks which annoy me. But all in all, I like it since it is stock Slackware and it is a nice capable music player.

mpd + icecast
jellyfin

I use VLC, Audacious, and Xine.

I use my own dmenu-based frontend to mplayer that's in my signature.
The playlist creation is based on an old program called "plait" that had what I thought was a good, simple way of filtering files. Basically your whole library is OR-ed through all words you type when prompted for "Filters"; e.g. if you type "bob mississippi" you will get everything from Bob Marley and Bob Dylan, "Mississippi Goddam", and any other albums or songs that have bob or tool in their name.

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mpv