There is provided a method for synchronizing a plurality of components of a broadcast media stream, the method comprising buffering (18) streams of data samples for a plurality of components of a broadcast media stream and buffering a plurality of information packets, the stream of data samples for each of the plurality of components including relative timing information, each information packet comprising timing information indicating a relationship between the relative timing information in the components and an absolute time; performing (16) a look-ahead action on the buffered information packets to extract timing information for each of the plurality of components; and using (16) the extracted timing information and relative timing information to synchronize the plurality of components.