diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 20ed766..730fe85 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -421,14 +421,13 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "ha-now-playing"
-version = "0.4.4"
+version = "0.4.5"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "async-tungstenite",
  "clap",
  "color-eyre",
  "futures",
- "html-escape",
  "reqwest",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
@@ -461,15 +460,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "html-escape"
-version = "0.2.11"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "b8e7479fa1ef38eb49fb6a42c426be515df2d063f06cb8efd3e50af073dbc26c"
-dependencies = [
- "utf8-width",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "http"
 version = "0.2.5"
@@ -1550,12 +1540,6 @@ version = "0.7.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "09cc8ee72d2a9becf2f2febe0205bbed8fc6615b7cb429ad062dc7b7ddd036a9"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "utf8-width"
-version = "0.1.5"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7cf7d77f457ef8dfa11e4cd5933c5ddb5dc52a94664071951219a97710f0a32b"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "valuable"
 version = "0.1.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index eab2466..0352867 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [package]
 name = "ha-now-playing"
 description = "Retrieves the state of a media_player entity from Home Assistant"
-version = "0.4.4"
+version = "0.4.5"
 authors = ["Erwin Boskma <erwin@datarift.nl>"]
 edition = "2021"
 include = ["src/**/*"]
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ async-tungstenite = { version = "0.17.1", features = ["tokio-rustls-native-certs
 clap = { version = "3.1.6", features = ["cargo", "unicode", "derive", "env"] }
 color-eyre = "0.6.1"
 futures = "0.3.21"
-html-escape = "0.2.11"
 reqwest = { version = "0.11.10", features = ["blocking", "json"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0.136", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0.79"
diff --git a/src/homeassistant.rs b/src/homeassistant.rs
index 3e53759..72d73f9 100644
--- a/src/homeassistant.rs
+++ b/src/homeassistant.rs
@@ -415,13 +415,13 @@ impl HomeAssistant {
                 String::new()
             };
 
-            let now_playing = if let Some(channel) = maybe_channel {
+            let text = if let Some(channel) = maybe_channel {
                 format!("{volume}[{channel}] {artist} - {title}")
             } else {
                 format!("{volume}{artist} - {title}")
             };
 
-            let text = html_escape::encode_text(&now_playing).to_string();
+            // let text = html_escape::encode_text(&now_playing).to_string();
 
             match self.format {
                 OutputFormat::Waybar => Waybar::builder()