Athame is a program for downloading music from music streaming and sharing services. It is intended for educational and private use only, and not as a tool for pirating and distributing music. Above all else, remember that the artists and studios put a lot of work into making music -- if you can, purchase music directly from the artist as more money goes to them.

Since I am also caught up with other things I can't devote all my time to fixing and improving Athame. Right now it is just a very buggy, basic tool which I hope will either be improved upon in the future, or be contributed to.

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At the moment, I am mostly working on the Athame core application, so I can't spend my time writing plugins for other services. However, services like Deezer and Spotify may become available in the future.

Plugins are always distributed as Zip files - to install a plugin, simply extract the zip to the "Plugins" folder, which is in the same directory as the Athame executable. A guide for creating your own plugins can be found on the wiki.

Open the Athame.exe executable.

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Enter a URL in the "URL" textbox, then click "Add". It will show up in the download queue. Click "Start" to begin downloading.

If you haven't signed in, you can click the Menu button, then go to Settings and choose the tab of the music service you want to sign into. You can also just enter a URL and click "Click here to sign in" on the error message below the URL textbox.

Under Settings > General, you can change where music is downloaded to as well as the filename format used. There is an explanation of the valid format specifiers on the General tab.

• .NET 4.6.2 or later
• Visual Studio 2015 (Express will work fine) or later with NuGet

While Athame currently uses WinForms for its UI, this is a halfway solution to an ideal UI. I'm currently in the process of creating a WPF UI to replace the WinForms UI, which will hopefully also fix many bugs in the process. I am also currently considering a cross-platform interface (since WinForms is incredibly buggy on non-Windows platforms), but again this is just a consideration as writing a command-line interface would take time away from porting it to WPF. A GTK# interface would also be possible, but would take a while since I am unfamiliar with GTK#. There are currently no plans for a Cocoa (OS X) interface since I do not have a Mac.