can you please allow me (or if it is already available explain how to) to disable pod-cast in searches (all it does for me is fill up my searches so that i can not find my media) It is really a problem when there is like thirty pod-cast in the search results.
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I too would like to know how to disable the podcast search feature, and podcast everything for that matter. All it does is clutter my search and page with content I have no interest in.
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You can disable the Podcast feature in the Online Media Sources section of your server settings. Here’s a quick link: https://app.plex.tv/desktop#!/settings/online-media-sources. You can’t disable showing Podcasts in search and still have the feature active, so if you do not want to see Podcasts in search, you would need to disable the feature.
thank you!
Search needs more options. No reason to search everything. Slows things down. If your search for a show. Click the box that says tv. If it’s apostasy click that. If it’s an actor click that. Etc…
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I can’t restrict the search without disabling the entire feature. What a horrible limitation! I use Plex because I like to control my own media. I want to search my subscribed podcasts, not every podcast in existence. The search makes sense in an “Add a new podcast” context but to include a search of every podcast in my media search…how does that make sense? Please give me control of my content again.
I really hope that this is not a step towards becoming a media storefront. Next, I’ll search my media and find media that I don’t own but can purchase through the new PlexTra Extra store! 
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I have to agree with @lostnote on this point. I never thought I would use the Podcast feature, but have found myself enjoying a few of them and have decided to keep it on. The issue is with the search. Why, oh why, would it search every podcast Plex knows about and then prioritize Podcasts at the top of my search results so I can’t find my own media within my own server because the number of Podcast results more often than not maxes out how many the search query will show especially on my Android phone. Super frustrating. There definitely needs to be some flexibility in Having the feature on or off, then if on would you a) Like to show search results from all available podcasts? (current situation) b) Like to show search results only from your subscribed Podcasts? or c) Do not show Podcasts in your search results.
I would definitely appreciate more granular control of what my server does and does not return in a search query. And I feel this does expose an overall issue with Plex’s search capability as a whole now that they are trying to add (in my opinion) too many features. That’s fine if you want to add more capability, but not giving us all the options possible to control those capability i.e. what our servers will show us or not show us is not appreciated and dare I say not well thought out possibly with the misguided thinking of let’s just add as many features as possible as fast as we can?
If I may quote Jeff Goldblum from the original Jurassic Park "…your scientists (or software developers in this instance) were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.’
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I’ve totally disabled podcast via the Plex.tv online media services settings, but my iOS search results are still filled with this junk. Has anyone been successful in removing this i’ve totally disabled podcast via the Plex.tv online media services settings, but my iOS search results are still filled with this junk. Has anyone been successful in removing this from their search results?
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Having the same issue.
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I just wanted to chime in with one additional issue this raises.
When I’m using Plex with Android Auto, it wants you to use voice commands to ask for music for safety sake. But, since podcasts are included in search, it will sometimes launch some podcast episode instead of the song you requested.
It might not even be a podcast episode you’ve synced (or a podcast you’ve ever heard of before), so it even ends up using data in the process.
Anyway, I was so annoyed that I made a feature suggestion related to this, in case it would help:
https://forums.plex.tv/t/option-to-disable-discovery-features-globally/339168/3
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Having the same issue as well still to this day…I guess it’s falling on deaf ears?
+1 For this. I don’t want to disable Podcasts entirely, but I only want a search across all the gobs of random podcasts in the world if I’m specifically trying to discover podcasts. Every single time I’m using search, I’m trying to search my own media (of which, I wouldn’t mind if my subscribed Podcasts fell into).
Please Plex consider revising this!
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