Ares Lite Music Downloads

What is Ares Lite?

The name Ares probably sounds familiar to you if you are a frequent user of P2P (peer to peer) file sharing programs. Ares Galaxy is a popular file sharing network used by millions of people every day to share music files, as well as other media files like videos and photos. The full version of Ares is an open format source program, which means users connect to each other to share files instead of connecting to a centralized database, as you do with some online music programs. And of course, the real draw with Ares Galaxy is that the program is free to use and offers members the ability to download unlimited amounts of music.

For all of the pluses that users find with the Ares Galaxy program, there is a downside. The program is large and takes up a lot of memory on computers – so much so that it is prohibitive for many users, especially people with older computers and slow download speeds. Older computers with single core technology – systems that can only officially run one program at a time – have particular difficulty running the full version of Ares. On these systems, when you are running Ares, you cannot run any other program on your computer without difficulty – a real problem for people who like to download their music while they work on other things with their computer.

Enter the Ares Lite system. Ares Lite offers the same functions as the full version of Ares Galaxy, but it takes up much less memory than the full edition. Ares Lite is ideal for people who need a low memory program but who still want access to all of the music with the full version of Ares.

What Can I Do with Ares Lite?

Naturally, with Ares Lite, you can download music and other multimedia files to your heart’s content, but there are four main functions Ares points to as selling points for their program over all of your other P2P file sharing choices online:

• Superfast Downloads – Ares Lite music downloads from multiple sources at once, just like the full version of Ares, so you can get your downloads in a fraction of the time that you would with the other networks. (This process is called swarming)

• Organized Filing System – Some other downloading programs send your songs to one folder, and finding the song you want when you want to hear it can be a challenge if you have a lot of files. Ares Lite organizes your downloads by title and has an integrated search system just in case you’re not sure what you have and what you don’t.

• Built in Music Player – With Ares Lite, you don’t have to close the program to listen to your music. The built in Ares Lite media player lets you listen to your downloads as soon as you get them.

• Social Networking – You can connect to your fellow Ares Lite members with the social networking features of the program. You can instant message other members, plus, you can personalize your own chat room and invite fellow members in.

Who Should Use Ares Lite?

There are still a few features that Ares Galaxy has over Ares Lite, like tabbed page searches, and so one program does not fit all. In general, Ares Lite is recommended for people using older operating systems like Windows 98 or Windows ME, and Ares Galaxy is recommended for people on Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Mac users take note – Ares currently works on Windows and Linux operating systems exclusively.