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I got so annoyed when Plex started bombarding me with spam for third-rate streaming services I'd never heard of. If I wanted to use a streaming service I wouldn't be using a home server to do it.

Jellyfin is better in numerous ways but I can only get it to work sporadically with my Denon HEOS speakers, though it turned out I could just copy some music to a USB stick and stick it in my receiver to make a music server that works with HEOS.

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FWIW you can now disable the other streaming services, they annoy me as well and just today found a way to do it ( Settings -> Online Media Sources -> set all to 'Disabled' ).

Except it's per-user. There's no way for a Plex administrator to disable it for all users.

Because users can have access to multiple servers and each server admin don’t get to change their account options

This is part the problem.

Plex for me is for accessing a specific server. Or maybe one more if I added it. It shouldn’t require internet access and shouldn’t break if internet goes down and the server is on my LAN.

It isn’t for grabbing some stuff off the Plex site.

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