I used to use mpc-hc so I feel you, but I did just check their site and it literally has a banner saying "MPC-HC is not under development since 2017. Please switch to something else." mpv is pretty good.

music bee is a bit trickier. There are roughly 5000 music players for linux and they all seem to have every feature you want except for one. Sayonara came the closest for me, I haven't used it recently so maybe its better now but all I found it lacking was some smart playlist stuff.