In my site “Alternatives to Audiogalaxy” I mentioned other programs P2P.

I’ve tested a lot of them till I found Ares, an easy to use program with a lot of

library on music and films. I’ve been using it for three years and downloading  all

music  and films really fast. Let´s see how it works:

First of all download the program through the link above this text. When download

is over run the program and select the language clicking “control panel” :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

then you have to configure the number of allowed  conections uploads and the

simultaneous downloads transfers, once this number is reached the rest of them

will be in pause till a download is completed. Notice that bandwith of Internet

will decrease with the number of online transfers so you’ll have to test till you

find the correct settings.

Once that’s over let’s configure the output folder where files are stored. That is

useful when you have an external drive to spare storage in Pc.

Click on change folder (cambiar carpeta)  and find the new location (see the

picture below right) then click accept (aceptar).

The incomplete downloads come in format “arestra <name of file>.When download

is over , it shows only file name.I suggest to create another folder for complete

files having this way things more organized.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next let’s configure the shared folders. From here users can download our files.

Select manual mode (configuración manual) because maybe they are folders or

personal files not for share with others.Remember that it’s important to SHARE

files if not this program will be useless.

Enter control panel, filesharing , manual configuration.We will see this pic:

                                                              from here we seek  for sharing folders.

                                                              Remember that highlight the red squares

                                                               means including all folders included inside

                                                               it. So better open and highlight all folders

                                                               individually so that the files not to share

                                                               keeps out.

                                                               Now click on accept and that’s it:

                                                               Shared folders and files can be seen in  the

                                                               shared library, look at the list of files here

                                                               and repeat last step if  this list shows files

                                                               not to share.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now let’s search in Ares, click on search (búsqueda) and we’ll see the above pic.

Type the search name and we can watch the options avalaibles to download

and also the sources avalaibles for each of them (the more sources  there are

more faster download will begin).You can also open the advanced search and

try the search for audio files, video files and more options (picture above right).

Simultaneous searches can be done, each search  is kept in a new label on the

above picture and also can remove them individually.

Now highlight the download you wish and click  “download” or right click on the

file and then click “download” on the dialog box. You can repeat this with more

files.

Now click in the icon “downloads” (descargas) . Here we can watch the download

progress and the other users uploads (see below pic)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From here you can open the downloads folder, see the downloads progress in

percentage, the finished downloads (the progress bar changes to green ), pause

and cancel downloads, clean finished and corrupted downloads, see and cancel

the uploads and preview downloads before completed (the content of some files

can not be the announced in the title or the video or sound may be corrupt) then

after watching preview we can cancel them,this thing is usual in Ares.

To end this tutorial an interesting site to create covers of cd albums an films.

This one is called  COVERALIA . Enjoy ARES !