I'm a
professor, so listening to
on my PC is quite important. Audacious is OK, but I want something a bit easier.
I had thought Banshee would be the best
application for my needs, but I've replaced it with aTunes. The reason I did so was due to distortion when Bashee played AAC files, most likely due to some codec dependency it uses that aTunes does not.
If you have no AAC files Banshee may be a petter solution, however the installation of a newer version (not in Synaptic) is not easy.
Since aTunes uses java (make sure you use Sun's version, as found in Elive) it uses its own interface settings that does not fit in with other apps very well. There are also some "clunkiness" in adjusting things like equalizer settings.
aTunes is also very easy to install. A deb package is available on their website. Download it, right-click in the folder to open a terminal, log in as root (su) with your root password, and then run dpkg -i <aTunes package name>.deb. Installs in 5 seconds.