# Why are music videos on YouTube so poorly synched?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-music-videos-on-youtube-so-poorly-synched/373981>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 24, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-music-videos-on-youtube-so-poorly-synched/373981 "2006-09-24T21:24:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-music-videos-on-youtube-so-poorly-synched/373981/1 "2006-09-24T21:24:16Z")

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I love digging up music videos on YouTube. But I’ve noticed that with the vast majority of them, the artists lip movement and singing are horribly out-of-sync. Is this a technical problem with YouTube or the posters? Are people trying to dub music from their computer to silent video and missing the mark?

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**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-music-videos-on-youtube-so-poorly-synched/373981/2 "2006-09-24T22:08:13Z")

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Oh, and letting users tag videos sucks. You get absolute garbage in searches. Oh, well, you get what you pay for.