Foobar's the only realistic alternative because it's the only one, that I know of, that supports the full gamut of plugins written to play video game/ancient computer audio files. Mostly because guys like Neill Corlett wrote all those plugins ~15-10 years ago when your only choices were Winamp or Foobar.

http://www.zophar.net/music.html

Audacious comes close, but isn't quite there. PSF2 support is mostly non-functional, for instance.

For me, I used foobar because it was the last one that didn't try to be 'smart' about shuffle play.

I use foobar2000 too, however I don't agree with "function over style", there are some skins and options that change it completely.

I think we should agree it's highly customizable, both for function or style.

Fair enough. I always left it on default, and it's not the prettiest thing then, or wasn't at the time.

Another capable linux alternative is Audacious.

My goto player these days is MOC.