Tried DeaDBeeF yet?
It seems it is listed. Right above foobar2000 
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Thank you very much, I will try all these and also Audacious.
I will try on a Raspberry Pi first, that I can reset more easily after all tests.
I forgot to say also, I don’t need media library and I need customisable global hotkeys. 
@jesus2099 is a Linux user now. Excellent! 
The best players for your requirements are probably DeaDBeeF and Rhythmbox. DeaDBeeF is more similar to foobar2000. Some familiar features are a layout editor, plugins, and fb2k title formatting scripts.
Clementine is well known in the GNU/Linux/BSD world, but it was not maintained for nearly four years. Now it is getting some attention again, so maybe someone will update its interface. Strawberry is a fork of Clementine that adds some new features, but it still has the same old interface. (You can disable the cat photo under Settings → Appearance → Background image.)
I don’t want to install many things to test them, I fear I would leave in place many bogus packages when uninstalling tested players.
If you use a package management GUI, it might remove these automatically. On the command line, you can do it yourself with this command: sudo apt autoremove. You can also also tell APT to remove unused packages when uninstalling an application: apt remove clementine --auto-remove
It’s important to be able to try new software without a worry! 
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I moved to Linux several years ago and foobar2000 is the one reason I use WINE. It was a bit of a pain to get the NAS, DSD, hi-res and the USB-DAC to play nice, but all is good now. I have heard good things about DeaDBeeF. Good luck.
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For rippers take a look at whipper mainly as it checks against the acuraterip database.This will verify that your rip of the cd matches the rip that someone else has done.
I occasionally use rhythmbox or vlc by dragging and dropping files from the network share and playing an album at a time.
Kodi is also a good option for a full screen media player.
Great option if you have a spare raspberry pi, xbox or a smart tv that can be dedicated to playing music while you work.
You can look at music servers such as dnla servers as well as plex to allow you to store all your music on a nas and share it out to other devices.
There are also web based players such as ampache that you install on your webserver to share your music then all you need is a browser to play music.
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I’m currently using Clementine for Ubuntu and have found it fairly straight forward. I’ve asked if they would consider adding more grouping options here:
https://groups.google.com/g/clementine-player/c/iPeaLo4mHN4
Just a small update.
I still haven’t fond what I’m looking for.
I am not playing a lot of music on PC but I am still using Audacious.
It’s the closest to foobar2000 simplicity and features I found.
But is still lacking many of its features.
Even tagging files is hardly possible on Audacious.
Apparently DeaDBeeF could be nice but I think I could not easily install it on Raspberry Pi, where I wanted to test it and didn’t find it in my old Debian 10 PC apt, either.
I should install manually but am so lazy, finding a software audio player is not high in my priority list.
I haven’t booted into my Linux install in a bit, but, I was using Lollypop and found it to be good for my needs. I am not sure it ticks all your boxes but I figured I should mention it. Apps/Lollypop - GNOME Wiki!
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I use Strawberry. Its MB tag reading isn’t perfect but it’s been good enough for me with only minor manual tweaks needed.
If you don’t like the cat you can replace it with a different kitten.
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As it is not yet possible in Discourse, I’m trying a poll where you can add your items, to find what is the favourite Linux audio player, here:
- Scroll left and right to see all options
- You can also add your missing option (try to insert it in alphabetical order)
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Dunno if you’re still tracking this but I voted. 
Can provide my reasons if you’re interested.
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Wow, this was a late reply for a zombie thread, lol. Are you still looking for a replacement for foobar2000? I still say use WINE on Linux. I don’t use fb2000 too much anymore, since I’m currently using Roon for a player. But fb2000 & EAC is still my choice for ripping and tagging CDs. YMMV, laters.
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It has been requested for inclusion in Debian 13 years ago:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=576975
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Not really, as I use Pioneer PD-Z74T to listen to music, most of the time, really.
I do use foobar2000 on Windows and Audacious on Linux, even if it has less features than foobar2000.*
* I don’t want to have to use an emulator (Wine) or to install something without apt (DeaDBeeF).
Doesn’t look like this will be in Debian repos. Not only is there this open packaging request chaban linked to, but also the author said it is unlikely: [Question] Why DeaDBeef is not in the official repositories of Ubuntu yet? · Issue #2407 · DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef · GitHub
But deadbeef offers a universal deb package for Debian and Ubuntu on the download page (DeaDBeeF - The Ultimate Music Player). Had you tried that?
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Oh thanks @chaban!
When I was told it had already been refused, I went looking for the exact refusal reasons and found this great summary of how submitting packages to Debian works and then I searched through that RFP base and found the same ticket (sorry I didn’t notice your post before)!!
So I will certainly read that DeaDBeeF in Debian #576975 RFP, very soon!
I’m interested in understanding that kind of things.
No I’m too lazy to do that.
And well, actually I’m fine with Audacious. It is quite good and I have a very limited use of an audio player (like once a month, or so).
I just use foobar2000 on my office PC when I need to do something more advanced stuff (convert) than just play.
But that is not a big effort! dpkg -i and it’s done. Install is probably easier than anything on Windows. But I don’t want to dissuade you from using Audacious, because I use it myself.
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I figured I’d mention Tauon Music Box. It’s a minimalist music player for Linux and Windows, with the following features that may be of interest:
- CUE sheet support
- Minimalist, tab-based UI using “pinned” playlists that you choose
- Smart playlist (though not as good for genre groups like I have with MusicBee’s tag hierarchies)
- Listen tracking to ListenBrainz, Last.fm and Majola
- Uses Picard for tagging and auto-updates files opened in Picard via Tauon, once Picard is closed
- Star ratings in a condensed 10-star rating system (basically up to 5 stars with half-star ratings)
I’m not one for minimalism but it’s probably the best minimalist looking music player right now. I don’t know if OP wants something that integrates to the desktop environment, but it’s definitely a desktop-oriented UI. There is no auto-updating/adding like MusicBee and Quod Libet has though you can refresh the database and load it in the current playlist for an equivalent effect.
Unfortunately it can’t do CD stuff but I don’t know of any Linux player or application that can do this. Whipper is the go-to for CD ripping in Linux, and it has MusicBrainz integration, but if you have a drive that the underlying cdparanoia library doesn’t like, like I do? Just get EAC or dbPoweramp and run it in WINE.
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Thanks, I’ll try that too!
for “CD stuff”:
I use the multimedia suite K3b for pretty much everything. It includes several external (command line) programs like cdrdao, cdrecord, mkisofs, transcode… (but you may need to install some of these applications separately)
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