Even Otto was not impressed with the idea when suggested a while ago:
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This is the most egregious update in Plex history. Please make it go away.
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My own opinion here but I bet some stakeholder with influence in plex seen this as a good idea and forced it in.
No right minded developer would ever see this as a positive improvement in their software. Smells of outside influence …
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I swear to god, the moment my TV updates to this and yells “PLEX” on startup I’m moving to Jellyfin. F
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This change isnt even in the changelog! someone at plex just threw it in and thought nobody would notice?
Every time i turn my TV on it shouts at me now.
Man I hope this is only on Android TV.
I love it, bring on more of this stuff!!!
Don’t blame a dev for what is no doubt some middle manager’s Genius Idea of the Quarter™
Anyways, +1 for this being my deciding factor for switching to Jellyfin. You have one month Plex 
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Please remove this feature or add the ability to disable this feature.
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Who the heck thought this was a good idea and approved this change?
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Please give the ability for the end user to turn it off.
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Please remove this “feature” or add the ability to disable it.
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Why anyone thought this was a good idea was beyond me. Just straight up remove it and then tell your marketing/design department to go back to the drawing board
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Netflix, YouTube TV, YouTube, now Plex. Please stop.
Turning the TV on at 2am cause I can’t sleep, forgetting to turn down the sound before launching the app, and waking the whole house up cause the app has to announce itself…
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Came here just to say this need to be disabled or at the very least made optional
“Let’s do what everyone else does!”
sigh
DO. NOT. WANT.
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100% need an option to disable this horrible sound
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Disable yes - but they should fire the team that thought this was a good idea as they are clearly out of touch with users
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Hmm, can this get to 1000 votes as quickly as the “Disable Discovery” request?
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I had to remove a vote from x265 to vote for killing off the startup sound. WORTH IT.
BTW do we ever get new votes? We have just a few for all time?
Are they refunded to us if the ideas get implemented? Probably no one will ever know. 
Just because you can create software, it does not guarantee all your ideas about what to do with that software are solid gold. I have worked with plenty of knucklehead developers. “Management” does not have a monopoly on bad ideas.
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