Mpd+ncmpcpp for almost 15 years here. Album art would be nice but I don't look at my music player long enough to care that much. Its always thrown on a far away workspace.

Yes I tried Kew and Rmpc. Hell I cloned Rmpc and rewrote it from scratch to try and learn Rust. They're both neat projects but not enough for me to switch. Especially Kew. That one requires some reprogramming of the brain. I'm good right now.