My name is Ag, and I am a linux user.
I started using Ubuntu back in 2005 with the breezy badger release, and have continued through the next 12 releases so far (for those unfamiliar with Ubuntu, there is a free release every April and October).
When I'm on the computer I'm almost certainly listening to some music (right now it happens to be Weezer), and over the years I've tried a number of different media players. Here are my thoughts on them in roughly the order I tried them out. Now I know what you are thinking - it's probably not fair to compare a modern music player to one you tried for all of a week back in 2005. Fair enough, but that's how I roll bitches.
Now this was back when Amarok didn't suck. For some reason the developers decided to throw away everything and start over with the 2.x versions. For some reason they decided that what Amarok needed was more suck. Mission accomplished. But back in the day Amarok was the bomb. I even thought it was worth loading all the KDE libraries in order to run it. It had all the features I wanted, although some of them were implemented through plugins. I don't really remember why I moved away from it.
I've used Banshee for years (or at least it has seemed like years). Banshee is now the default music player in Ubuntu, and in my opinion it is a position well deserved. Much like Amarok before it, Banshee had all the features I was looking for. And I wouldn't need the KDE libs any longer, but I would need the Mono framework (an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework).
Back in the day when I was a young man, before I had heard of linux my media player of choice was Winamp. Back then Winamp was lightweight (at least by today's standards). Audacious is a clone of the Winamp of yester-year. I find it the perfect media player for my netbook.
Clementine picks up where Amarok 1.x left off (I believe it is a fork of the 1.x code) and continues in the same spirit. I've only been using it for a day or two, but it feels like coming home.