diff --git a/gnu/packages/xiph.scm b/gnu/packages/xiph.scm
index 31251ca3a5..c4db640d0f 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/xiph.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/xiph.scm
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2013 David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
 ;;; Copyright © 2014 Sree Harsha Totakura <sreeharsha@totakura.in>
 ;;; Copyright © 2014 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
-;;; Copyright © 2015 Paul van der Walt <paul@denknerd.org>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -47,7 +46,6 @@
             libkate
             vorbis-tools
             opus
-            opusfile
             opus-tools))
 
 (define libogg
@@ -343,34 +341,6 @@ decoding .opus files.")
     (license license:bsd-3)
     (home-page "http://www.opus-codec.org")))
 
-(define opusfile
-  (package
-    (name "opusfile")
-    (version "0.6")
-    (source (origin
-              (method url-fetch)
-              (uri (string-append
-                    "http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/opus/opusfile-" version
-                    ".tar.gz"))
-              (sha256
-               (base32
-                "19iys2kld75k0210b807i4illrdmj3cmmnrgxlc9y4vf6mxp2a14"))))
-    (build-system gnu-build-system)
-    (propagated-inputs
-     `(("opus" ,opus)))
-    `(native-inputs
-      ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config))
-    (inputs
-     `(("libogg" ,libogg)
-       ("openssl" ,openssl)))
-    (synopsis "Versatile audio codec")
-    (description
-     "The opusfile library provides seeking, decode, and playback of Opus
-streams in the Ogg container (.opus files) including over http(s) on posix and
-windows systems.")
-    (license license:bsd-3)
-    (home-page "http://www.opus-codec.org")))
-
 (define-public icecast
   (package
     (name "icecast")