Ares Connect

I must admit I’ve been slow on the draw when it comes to online music and file sharing. I guess at my age (can we say a child of the 70s?) accepting new things in the way I listen to music has been slow at best. Heck, I still remember the anxiety I had just prior to giving up my precious vinyl. Nevertheless, I made the switch and soon forgot all the skips and scratches I once held a blind-eye to. A few days ago, our youngest son (all of 8 years old) was telling my wife and I about the latest online program he was using to download music. After both of us blinked, he told us to view site and see how safe and easy Ares file sharing was. Turns out he was right.

Ares File Sharing: Changing Music Downloads for the Better

Being the vintage I am, I’ve seen most of the major format changes in music recording and playback. I grew up with the vinyl LP, saw the first round of 8-track and cassette tapes, and then in the 1980s, realized (at the time) the pinnacle of music formatting, the compact disc. It wasn’t until the birth of the Internet (along with a deft prodding from my kids) that the concept of Ares file sharing software entered my reality. The mp3 format is not a stranger to me, but this concept was. My older boy told me one day, “Dad, just go view site for yourself and see how simple and extremely cool this software really is. There are so many songs you can’t be bored…ever.”

Legal Music Downloads: Putting a Damper on Large Music Labels

The old cliche: The times are a changing, is quite frankly, ringing full-bell in today’s music industry. Ever since the advent of the Internet–and the ease at which video and audio files can be both recorded and transferred electronically–the hard-copy portion of the music business, i.e. compact discs and digital cassettes, has seen a gradual, yet entirely evident, slow down. EMI, the world’s third-largest music company has already been on the record in saying that legal music downloads have played a part in sagging sales. Yes, there are problems in emi camp possibly due to music downloads and unless new marketing procedures are implemented, hard-copy music sales are apt to continue their slide.

Connecting… or Online. That’s become the big question for Ares.  We all want to see the Online note at the top of our Ares window.  A lot of the Ares versions floating around no longer connect.  Why not?  Frankly things have changed over the years and the Ares network is dynamic.  We thought about it a bit and came up with a solution.  Aresconnect.  It’s a little application that you use to get your version of Ares connected.  Use it once.  Use it every time you have connection problems.  Usually it helps.

But not always.  Some of you are behind corporate firewalls, or have unfriendly ISP’s.  But still, try this and most of you will be plesantly surprised.  We use it.