AudioPhil is the no-fuzz, get-the-job-done music player you've been looking for. It is free and open source software released under the 3-clause BSD-License.
The latest version is 0.4.2 and is considered beta quality.
AudioPhil is developed by Lorenz Quack <don (at) amberfisharts.com>

AudioPhil is not yet feature complete. Here are some of the features implemented so far.

• Tabbed Playlists (think browser tabs)
• Media Library
• System Tray Icon

Currently there are only source releases available and can be found on the project's sourceforge page. AudioPhil has the following dependencies:

• Python 2.x where x ≥ 5
• Qt ≥4.5
• PyQt4 ≥4.5
• mutagen

Everybody likes screenshots. These shots were taken on my netbook so the layout is a bit cramped.

Playlists and Media Library	also showing the Sidebar; different layout.
Minimal Layout only showing the Playlists	Minimal Layout with controls

This is an incomplete list of features I want to implement before the 1.0 release in no particular order

• Better support for external media (i.e. media that is not in the Media Library)
• Support for *.m3u, *.pls and *.xspf
• Simple metadata editing capabilities