# YouTube Vids Posted Have No Sound

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-vids-posted-have-no-sound/921780>\
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**Created:** [September 29, 2020, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-vids-posted-have-no-sound/921780 "2020-09-29T01:17:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-vids-posted-have-no-sound/921780/1 "2020-09-29T01:17:47Z")

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Just now playing the videos in the 80s music thread the sound has been lost. Playing the same vids on YouTube the sound is back. Has some Mod accidentally disabled the sound from videos?

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-vids-posted-have-no-sound/921780/2 "2020-09-29T02:30:52Z")

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Are you sure you don’t have sounds muted for the SDMB page?

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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-vids-posted-have-no-sound/921780/3 "2020-09-29T02:33:31Z")

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How would I turn this off?

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-vids-posted-have-no-sound/921780/4 "2020-09-29T02:42:31Z")

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What browser are you using?

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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-vids-posted-have-no-sound/921780/5 "2020-09-29T02:50:09Z")

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Firefox. It was working perfectly until about 2 hours ago.

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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-vids-posted-have-no-sound/921780/6 "2020-09-29T02:52:33Z")

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It seems to be a Firefox issue.

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**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-vids-posted-have-no-sound/921780/7 "2020-09-29T14:45:19Z")

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Right clicking a tab gives you the option of muting that tab.

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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-vids-posted-have-no-sound/921780/8 "2020-09-29T14:47:59Z")

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Thank you very much. I don’t know how I muted it in the first place but this solved my issue.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-vids-posted-have-no-sound/921780/9 "2020-09-29T17:12:24Z")

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I just learned (by right-clicking on @naita’s advice) that Chrome has the same feature. Who knew?? Not I.