I ended up running foobar2000 in Wine. I had some problems during setup, but it runs fine now.

Also, Foobar2000 works just fine over WINE, FYI.

Do Foobar2000 Components work with WINE? I try installing components on MacOS and they say Nope, only Windows is supported for this plugin. My workaround is to use Ableton Live and Bluehole (for audio routing) but it is CPU expensive.

I'll throw out Fooyin for QT

Fooyin is great. For those spoiles by foobar2000, there are no alternatives.

thanks I'll have to test this out!

All these players will never dethrone DeadBeeF's interface. Foobar2000 simply has the perfect layout - and it's customizable.