How to use Quark
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First, run the backend:
% quark &

To use the CLI:
% charm-quark

To use the GUI:
% strange-quark

Playing songs with non-english filenames
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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. :)

Playing HTTP streams
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Because of various exciting bugs in gstreamer, you can only play HTTP streams
that can be decoded by the "mad" plugin, i.e. MP3 streams, and you'll have to
have the "mad" plugin installed in order to do this. If you want to play other
streams, please petition the gstreamer developers to fix bug #94113.
