Linux.com looks at Banshee

I've seen and played around with Rhythmbox, Banshee and a few other music manager type program (i.e. stuff that doesn't just play your MP3 and lets you save and load playlist, but much more - nothing like XMMS which the first poster mentioned), and none currently match up even to the simple offerings of commercial music managers, such as iTunes and MusicMatch.

I'm personally an Amarok user. Its currently the best music manager system out there, hands down:
- multiple backend: gstreamer, xine, akode or arts, so it works no matter what audio layer you use.
- Browse by author, album, track and filter with a handy spotlight like search bar.
- Knows about compilations (The only linux music manager that handles that properly).
- Has a cool "context" browser which provide info at a glance on the current track and offers access to other tracks.
- Album art support.
- Dynamic playlist that learn your taste.
- MusicBrainz intergration
- last.fm integration
- Wikipedia integration (single click wikipedia look up of artist, album or track)
- Multiple lyrics search backends.
- Plug-in support, with lots of easy to install (thanks to KHotNewStuff) scripts available.

And the fact that its interface is cute, simple and useful.