Quark 3.21 review

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Quark is a daemon-like player that uses Xine-lib to play music

License: GPL (GNU General Public License)
File size: 199K
Developer: Ben Jansens
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Quark is a daemon-like player that uses Xine-lib to play music. It features a front-end that sits in your system tray. It uses Xine-lib for playing music, and can therefore play any file format supported by Xine.

Quark comes with a couple front-ends to make it more usefuland atractive.
charm-quark - a CLI interface
strange-quark - a GTK System Tray interface

If you want to play files that are not named in UTF-8 encoding and contain non-ascii characters, then you will have to pull some strings to make Quark load them.

Seting environment variables as shown here can make Quark work with them:

export G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=0 # this says that your filenames are not UTF-8
export CHARSET=ISO_8859-1 # this tells Quark what charset your files are using, change its value as appropriate

Alternately, you can rename your files to use UTF-8 characters.

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