Music player

Various programs exist to play music under Linux: audio CDs, MP3 files or Ogg Vorbis audio. The most well-known is XMMS, a WinAmp-alike music player.

Specific applications

XMMS -- Media player modeled after Winamp
RhythmBox -- A music player and manager for the GNOME desktop
Listen -- A music library manager program for the GNOME desktop, similar to Amarok
JuK -- an audio jukebox that supports collections of files for KDE
amaroK -- an new audio player/jukebox for KDE with better usability and can use the GStreamer backend
grip -- can be used for playing and ripping audio CDs with ease
GQmpeg -- GTK1 based player
Noatun - A KDE music player, although not as elaborate as some of the others
xfmedia - xfce's xine based music player
RealPlayer - Proprietary software from Real Networks, commonly used for streaming audio and video
HelixPlayer - Open-source alternative to RealPlayer that also uses open formats
MPD - Music Player Daemon (MPD) allows remote access for playing music (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Mod, and wave files) and managing playlists. MPD is designed around a client/server architecture, where the clients interact with MPD over a network. Thus, running MPD is only half of the equation; to use MPD, you need to install an MPD client