Audacious vs qmmp

Audacious is a classic music player at heart that has not felt the need to weigh itself down with an assortment of unnecessary options. Advanced functionality can be attained through plugins available from within the program.

My audacious uses only 18.5 MB of RAM. It has a Winamp visualization style that's very minimized and convenient.

Audacious can switch from its GTK interface to one that matches the looks of the famous Winamp player. What's even better is that this interface supports any Winamp themes, which allows for more options.

Lets you play, delete and even change metadata of your music files.

It plays dts, aac multichannel, etc.

It's able to reproduce most of media formats without external plugins.

Qmmp allows the user to drastically change its look via skins. It can use Winamp and Xmms skins, as well as a list of 12 skins made specifically for qmmp that can be found here.

Unlike more popular players that draw a huge window taking up the entire screen, with tons of knobs and menus popping out in new windows, qmmp gives you a single tiny window (that looks pretty much the same as Winamp used to look) with the basic controls and the playlist. The rest is available through a menu.

You can extend it with plugins.

No matter what OS or desktop you use Qmmp will integrate well

It depends on libaries instead of big fat toolkits like gstreamer.