diff --git a/gnu/packages/music.scm b/gnu/packages/music.scm
index 4a3e122936..30dfe4ac73 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/music.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/music.scm
@@ -4795,7 +4795,7 @@ audio samples and various soft sythesizers.  It can receive input from a MIDI ke
      `(("jack" ,jack-2)
        ("lv2" ,lv2)
        ("readline" ,readline)
-       ("libsndfile" ,libsndfile/fixed)))
+       ("libsndfile" ,libsndfile)))
     (home-page "https://github.com/swesterfeld/liquidsfz")
     (synopsis "Sampler library")
     (description "The main goal of liquidsfz is to provide an SFZ sampler
diff --git a/gnu/packages/pulseaudio.scm b/gnu/packages/pulseaudio.scm
index 5cda29789f..fe028b5202 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/pulseaudio.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/pulseaudio.scm
@@ -121,14 +121,6 @@ SPARC.  Hopefully the design of the library will also make it easy to extend
 for reading and writing new sound file formats.")
     (license l:gpl2+)))
 
-;; Remove this on core-updates
-(define-public libsndfile/fixed
-  (package
-    (inherit libsndfile)
-    (inputs '())
-    (propagated-inputs
-     (list libvorbis libogg flac opus))))
-
 (define-public libsamplerate
   (package
     (name "libsamplerate")                     ; aka. Secret Rabbit Code (SRC)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/telephony.scm b/gnu/packages/telephony.scm
index 1cf2fa8edf..426ccad723 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/telephony.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/telephony.scm
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ address of one of the participants.")
     (inputs
      (list avahi
            boost
-           libsndfile/fixed
+           libsndfile
            libxi
            mesa ; avoid bundled
            openssl