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I've seen an older thread on this topic but it doesn't look like anyone found a solution to disabling the screen saver, so I'll try a new one.

On virtually all my LG TV's (I have three OLED's and two LCD), the screen saver interferes with my music app (like Plex, Spotify or Amazon Music). I mainly use Plex for playback of my music which is stored on a central server (NAS) and from the app loaded on a Fire TV stick or cube. After about 20-30 minutes, the album art and other related music information (lyrics, song title, duration, etc) all goes black. If I run Plex (or Spotify) directly on the LG TV via the LG Content store app, the screen saver with fireworks always comes on in about 2 minutes. 

I've tried all the different methods to disable the screen saver function including turning off the Timers, Auto Power Off,  HDD Storage, etc. I also tried opening the hidden menus by pressing the mute button 5 times but that menu didn't have anything relevant. 

Interesting is that the screen saver doesn't come on when using Spotify on a Fire TV stick or if I playback music through a USB device. But i don't use those methods often, mainly Plex to access my music server where I have about 500 CD's stored in ALAC format.

Has anyone found a way to disable the screen saver function? I know the logic for having it (to prevent OLED burn in) but I'm not leaving the same image on for more than the song duration (about 3-5 minutes).  It's annoying to check the screen for the a music title or see who is on only to find a black screen looking back. Thanks for any help.

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On 3/8/2023 at 4:36 AM, StanJ said:

I've seen an older thread on this topic but it doesn't look like anyone found a solution to disabling the screen saver, so I'll try a new one.

On virtually all my LG TV's (I have three OLED's and two LCD), the screen saver interferes with my music app (like Plex, Spotify or

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Music). I mainly use Plex for playback of my music which is stored on a central server (NAS) and from the app loaded on a Fire TV stick or cube. After about 20-30 minutes, the album art and other related music information (lyrics, song title, duration, etc) all goes black. If I run Plex (or Spotify) directly on the LG TV via the LG Content store app, the screen saver with fireworks always comes on in about 2 minutes. 

I've tried all the different methods to disable the screen saver function including turning off the Timers, Auto Power Off,  HDD Storage, etc. I also tried opening the hidden menus by pressing the mute button 5 times but that menu didn't have anything relevant. 

Interesting is that the screen saver doesn't come on when using Spotify on a Fire TV stick or if I playback music through a USB device. But i don't use those methods often, mainly Plex to access my music server where I have about 500 CD's stored in ALAC format.

Has anyone found a way to disable the screen saver function? I know the logic for having it (to prevent burn in) but I'm not leaving the same image on for more than the song duration (about 3-5 minutes).  It's annoying to check the screen for the a music title or see who is on only to find a black screen looking back. Thanks for any help.

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I have a technician-Remote,  and tried to go through all menu-settings. Couldn’t find any disable-function. 

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Thank you for your reply. I kind of thought that was the case, but just wanted to see if anyone might have found a way. I do understand the issue with OLED burn-in, it happened to me a few years ago and LG was great about replacing it. So they probably want to limit their exposure to the possibility of it happening. I just wonder why other OLED manufacturers don't force you into screen saver mode. Anyway, thanks a lot.

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You can go to the Settings section on your TV, then find the screen saver to disable it.

Or, you can try to use USB drive or other methods to play Spotify songs on your TV. In this case, you have to get Spotify songs to a USB drive first via DRmare Music Converter. Then you can have local Spotify music and play them offline anywhere.

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Press the mute button 10 times to bring up a hidden menu, there will be a toggle switch to turn the stupid screensaver off.

I use my TV as a PC display and this was driving me crazy, kept popping up when I was scrolling through websites and watching films (even in full screen).

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On 10/25/2023 at 12:31 AM, OsterP said:

Press the mute button 10 times to bring up a hidden menu, there will be a toggle switch to turn the stupid screensaver off.

I use my TV as a PC display and this was driving me crazy, kept popping up when I was scrolling through websites and watching films (even in full screen).

It worked, thank you

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mute button 3, 5, now I hear 10 times?? of which none of them put into another settings menu. the real goofy thing about LG is that there is no model number anywhere on the TV and no menu in settings to turn screen saver off LG just is no good! I have to use usb for a commercial building directory and screen saver always comes on with fireworks

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