diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index f60951bfdfe..af19d9eb500 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -2155,7 +2155,6 @@ libgdict-1.0.so.10 gnome-dictionary-3.18.1_1
 libasignify.so.1 asignify-1.0_1
 libvte2_90.so.9 vte290-0.36.3_1
 libd0_blind_id.so.0 xonotic-0.8.0_1
-libechonest.so.2.3 libechonest-2.3.1_1
 libuecc.so.0 libuecc-5_1
 libKF5WindowSystem.so.5 kwindowsystem-5.6.0_1
 libKF5GuiAddons.so.5 kguiaddons-5.6.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libechonest-devel b/srcpkgs/libechonest-devel
deleted file mode 120000
index f80906acde0..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/libechonest-devel
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-libechonest
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libechonest/template b/srcpkgs/libechonest/template
deleted file mode 100644
index 9405c0e452e..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/libechonest/template
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-# Template file for 'libechonest'
-pkgname=libechonest
-version=2.3.1
-revision=3
-build_style=cmake
-hostmakedepends="qt-qmake"
-makedepends="qjson-devel boost-devel"
-short_desc="A C++/Qt wrapper around the wonderful echo nest api"
-maintainer="Duncan Overbruck <mail@duncano.de>"
-license="GPL-2"
-homepage="https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/libs/libechonest"
-distfiles="https://github.com/lfranchi/libechonest/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=ab961ab952df30c5234b548031594d7e281e7c9f2a9d1ce91fe5421ddde85e7c
-
-if [ -n "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
-	hostmakedepends+=" qt-host-tools"
-fi
-
-libechonest-devel_package() {
-	depends="${makedepends} ${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
-	short_desc+=" - development files"
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove usr/include
-		vmove usr/lib/*.so
-		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
-	}
-}