diff --git a/requirements-base.txt b/requirements-base.txt
index b47980c8..ebd1c8e4 100644
--- a/requirements-base.txt
+++ b/requirements-base.txt
@@ -7,4 +7,3 @@ natsort
 psutil
 pymediainfo
 pyyaml
-pystemd
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index cb523aba..c5780b75 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ natsort==7.0.1
 psutil==5.7.0
 PyJWT==1.7.1
 pymediainfo==4.1
-pystemd==0.7.0
 pytz==2019.3
 PyYAML==5.3.1
 sqlparse==0.3.0