# Enable Loudness CPU issues

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/enable-loudness-cpu-issues/945213>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-linux, audio\
**Created:** [October 27, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/enable-loudness-cpu-issues/945213 "2026-10-27T12:21:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![RevitXman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/revitxman/32/7561_2.png) [@RevitXman](https://forums.plex.tv/u/RevitXman)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/enable-loudness-cpu-issues/945213/1 "2026-10-27T12:21:21Z")

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Server Version#: 1.43.5.11079  
Player Version#:

I updated to this version, and Enable Loudness is consuming all my CPU causing temps to spike and warning about throttling on a i7-8700 causing CPU temps of 100\*C.

How can I disable this server wide?

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/enable-loudness-cpu-issues/945213/2 "2026-10-27T12:26:03Z")

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Settings - [server name]­ - Library - “Analyze audio tracks for loudness”

If you want to keep it active for music, but disable it for video, edit all the video libraries and disable it on each library’s Advanced tab.

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**Author:** ![RevitXman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/revitxman/32/7561_2.png) [@RevitXman](https://forums.plex.tv/u/RevitXman)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/enable-loudness-cpu-issues/945213/3 "2026-10-27T12:27:51Z")

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thanks.

Is there a reason the iGPU can’t be used? My CPU has been beat up thanks to this feature. 6K movies and when it hit my 4K library my CPU was brutalized.

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 12:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/enable-loudness-cpu-issues/945213/4 "2026-10-27T12:28:30Z")

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It’s an audio analysis, not a video transcoding.

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**Author:** ![RevitXman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/revitxman/32/7561_2.png) [@RevitXman](https://forums.plex.tv/u/RevitXman)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/enable-loudness-cpu-issues/945213/5 "2026-10-27T12:29:14Z")

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Understood. I wish this feature was not enabled by default.