mpd is what I'm using, since ditching Amarok (hate 2.0 and 1.4 is dead to me now that gentoo's switched from KDE 3 to 4)...<p>But mpd has one crushing flaw:  no ratings!  I don't know how people live without them.<p>I'm hoping sometime soon xmms2 will become stable enough to be useful, as it's supposed to have some sort of ratings support, and is build around the same kind of philosophy that mpd and Unix have.