My 'favourite' nowadays is Tidal. Those botchers cannot make a stable playback experience, also the UI is full of user hostile elements, approaches, and malfunctions. If I was in the position of hiring, those coming from Tidal had no chance.

> without the clutter and clunky graphics

Wasnt one of the fun things with that player putting random skins on it? Or am I thinking of a different one?

Yes.

And also fancy graphical visualizations of the music.

oh heck yeah, that was fun times!

Yes, but the skins didn't rearrange anything (as opposed to some other players). It was just a different "texture". See: https://skins.webamp.org/

There were winamp3 / modern 5.x skins which were freeform in nature so could be all sorts of shapes or not depending on what the skinner wanted it to be like. With 5.x still supporting the fixed form classic / 2.x skins as webamp & its skin museum support.

Checkout Tray Player if want a minimalist music player for Windows.

Indeed, and I even found better now: cmus.

Since I met this beast, I never went back to anything else.