Quark

If you're looking for a music player, Quark might be just what you need. It's a daemon-like player that utilizes Xine-lib to play your tunes. But Quark has more than just its core functionality to offer, as it also comes with several front-ends designed to make it a more attractive and useful program. One of these is charm-quark, a command line interface that makes it easy to interact with the player. Another is strange-quark, a GTK system tray interface that lets you access and control Quark from your desktop.

Because Quark makes use of Xine-lib, you'll be able to play music files in a wide variety of formats. However, if you're dealing with files that aren't named in UTF-8 encoding and contain non-ascii characters, you might run into some issues. Fortunately, there are a few ways to work around this. One option is to set environment variables that can help Quark recognize and load these files. You'll need to set the G_BROKEN_FILENAMES variable to 0 to let Quark know that your filenames aren't in UTF-8 encoding, and the CHARSET variable to indicate the specific charset your files are using (such as ISO_8859-1).

Alternatively, you can always rename your files to use UTF-8 characters. Overall, Quark provides a good option for anyone looking for a music player with some solid functionality and helpful front-end interfaces.