If you are looking for a “old school iTunes” kind of player there’s also https://swinsian.com/
A friend of mine (sound engineer) has been using VLC player for audio playback since forever. I do the same. The advantage is that you are forced to organize your music in your file system and that translates incredibly well to all other future systems. Want a special playlist? Just copy the files over and name them with a numeric prefix counting up. You can open that playlist ten years later on a different operating…
There’s a reason library based players were invented and that’s that you don’t need to batch rename files, or tag a file 3 times if it’s part of 3 different playlists.