I’ve been having some problems with vlc not doing playback very well, so I’ve seen people around the internet recommend mpv. So far I’m liking it! Pretty minimal but also extensible with several configuration options available.
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SMplayer + mpv as backend
Often use pure mpv from console.
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VLC forever!
Dragon Player and VLC
+1 for Celluloid
+1 for VLC
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VLC here! I have a key binding that runs cvlc --no-video --random ~/Music to randomly play songs from my Music folder.
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mpv and the uosc ui with some uosc.conf tweaks.
uosc link: https://github.com/tomasklaen/uosc
Jellyfin
Rythmbox for music as it can play my uPnP/DLNA library. It is so pity that no other GNOME/GTK music players can play uPnP/DLNA sources 
VLC for music/videos because I can throw any media format at it.
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I’m not sure what your issues are with VLC, but one thing I noticed when I switched to Linux was VLC behaved a little strange and not playing certain files. After some reading from the search engines it seems to have something to do with the default buffer sizes being too high. If you go into settings, select all and I think it was under input/codecs for buffers. Just change the default to a lower number (sorry, I’m not in Linux ATM). Hope that helps
I use mpv. Bouncing between regular and flatpak versions…
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mpv, but I’m gonna test Haruna, which is mpv wrapped in QML gui.
mpv all the way.
Some scripts I use with mpv:
mpvaciousis for extracting part of a video and exporting it to an Anki card and quickly seeking between subtitles.autoload.lua- loads all of the videos into the directory into a playlist automatically. I modified the script so that I need to press CTRL+L to get it to load them instead of just loading it automatically.chapters.js- display chapters for a media file that handles them, like mkv or m4b.crop.luaandeasycrop.luawhich are hard and soft cropping tools. Useful for cropping out hardcoded subtitles, mainly…playlistmanager.lualets me manage all the videos in my current playlist.save-sub-delay.lua- very useful for “soft” retiming subtitles inside of mpv usingxandzand saving the delay for every time you play the file. Beats using Aegisub sometimes!seek-to.luais for seeking to a particular timecode in the media using only the keyboard.webm.luais for creating short webm clips inside of mpv!
I previously used the thumbnail script but it uses too many resources and I never found it that useful anyway.
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I was using totem until support for runtime 43 ended. Totem still uses runtime 43 and has not been updated in over a year, so I removed it and got mpv and celluloid.
VLC forever!
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VLC for audio and video or mpv only for video
