MPEG stream gets damaged when changing source of download

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Submitted by psynaturecybine on Sun, 08/24/2014 - 03:47
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file X.mp3 downloaded until (lets say) 50% and then continued from another user, will contain errors, that are interpreted by foobar2000 as: "MPEG stream error at 11314032 bytes
|MPEG stream resync successful at 11314403"
this is permanent damage to the file. is this known issue? should be fixed immediately!

Submitted by microwave on Thu, 08/28/2014 - 03:45.

Are you certain both files are exactly the same? Having the same name doesn't mean they have the same data. They have to be exactly the same size. (Even then, no guarantees, although most of the time, same size usually means same data.) If you are grabbing the first however-many bytes from one file and the rest of the bytes from a slightly different file, you can expect a glitch at the seam. Even if it is the same audio data, it might be offset in one file vs. the other, due to tag differences.