The more I use Apple's iTunes the less I like it. My main gripe is the way it forces you to use its library idea of managing your music files. I personally like to manage my mp3 files myself, maybe playing a local file, then one from an NFS mount, then maybe one on the desktop. iTunes insists on abstracting the user from the fact that these are all files, and adding them all to its library. You end up not knowing where the files are, problems when you detach from remote mounts etc. And I don't really like the interface either, way too busy.
I can see how the average Mac user would like all this, but from the perspective of someone who is used to a command prompt it gets a little grating.
So along comes Cabrio, a minimalist mp3 player I found this morning. Seems to do everything I ask for, which isn't much from an mp3 player. Plus it's skinnable. Let's see how it performs.