Looking for a new music player

Hey guys. I just installed Arch and everything's looking great, but I haven't picked a music player yet.
I want something extremely light and simple, using GTK+. I just want to make a playlist and play it. I don't want uber-advanced media collection management and iPod support and Audioscrobbling and whatnot. And no KDE/Qt apps either. Most importantly, I want it to be able to run completely from the tray.
So, Archers: any ideas?

Well, is controlling Audacious from the tray all that... needed?
I use Global Hotkeys and have quite a few bindings set up. They work surprisingly well.
The list as it appears in the hotkey editor window:
Previous Track: Control + Alt + Prior (PgUp)
Play: Control + Alt + Return
Pause/Resume: Pause
Stop: Control + Alt + End
Next Tracks: Control + Alt + Next (PgDn)
Forward 5 seconds: Control + Alt + Right
Rewind 5 seconds: Control + Alt + Left
Volume Up: Control + Alt + Up
Volume Down: Control + Alt + Down
Pause/Resume: Control + Alt + Insert
Stop: Control + Shift + F11
Pause/Resume: Control + Shift + F12
Next Track: Control + Shift + F10
Forward 5 seconds: Control + Shift + F6
Rewind 5 seconds: Control + Shift + F5
Previous Track: Control + Shift + F9
Toggle Player Windows: Super + e
-dav7

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    Sonata, disable system tray icon, modify any panel settings to ignore it
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