Developed by Spaniard Pablo Soto, Blubster is a P2P free music downloading network. Blubster.com not only offers you the ability to find just about any song out there, but professional quality streaming files in your downloads as well. Once your client program connects with one of their gateways you can search and download mp3 music files from the entire protocol community Blubster.com offers the opportunity to communicate with other users with the click of your mouse. With an unlimited number of peers connecting to its network, chat and voice chat are available and can get you in touch with any user in the entire network. It also offers an easy-to-use interface enabling fast searches, resumable downloads, multi-source downloads and an internal MP3 player. Blubster facilitates an anonymous community and does not compile, store, or otherwise retain data about users, searches, or files.
One of the most outstanding features of Blubster.com is its high speed downloads. The estimated download time for a file is incredibly fast due to its advanced MANOLITO protocol. The incredible speed that the MANOLITO protocol reaches is due to the thousands of users that are part of this online community. Blubster.com searches the network for all available sources for a file and selects the fastest sources to start downloading. The program conducts file downloads at a great speed, not forgetting the quality factor: so music downloads are automatically verified to avoid errors or fake files. Another key element of Blubster.com is its playlist capacity. Using its free software you are able to manage all of your files, listening to them with the new internal music player. This saves time and effort, offering an extremely high quality sound, as it loads mp3s directly from your "My Shared Folder".
Despite its many stellar features, Blubster.com has its critics. Some say the program contains spyware, adware, browser hijackers and even a keylogger. Others say that Blubster, while being a great idea at one time, now has too many bugs and other problems to be relied upon. They point out that the creator and owner of the Blubster technology left to start up a new company called Piolet, which is a much better option. Still, Blubster takes advantage of decentralization and a strong community to deliver a fulfilling adventure into the P2P world.