A lot of music players may act more like playlist viewers rather than a music library. cmus sorts by Artist > Year > Album.

You can add keybindings for just about anything - including seeking (forward/backwards 1 minute, for example) which isn't supported by all music players.

Cmus only uses about 15 MB. This is a very small and light media player, which is ideal for people with low end hardware.

CLI makes Cmus clean, fast and minimalist.

cmus will factor in additional data from the MusicBrainz database while sorting. For example sort orders for arist or album, and the original release date for an album (in the case of a re-release).

On GitHub you can find the official WIKI where there are a dozen extensions and scripts from color themes to a lyrics viewer and the ability to play YouTube songs.

A lot of music players will be slow when starting if they have huge libraries, but CMus starts fast no matter the library size.