diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-audioread/INSTALL.msg b/srcpkgs/python-audioread/INSTALL.msg
deleted file mode 100644
index 895bea3492..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/python-audioread/INSTALL.msg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-To decode audio files the library supports different backends:
-- gstreamer via gst1-python
-- ffmpeg via its command-line interface
-- wave, aifc, and sunau files via Python standard library
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-audioread b/srcpkgs/python3-audioread
deleted file mode 120000
index 8983e80d1b..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/python3-audioread
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-python-audioread
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-audioread/python3-audioread.INSTALL.msg b/srcpkgs/python3-audioread/INSTALL.msg
similarity index 100%
rename from srcpkgs/python-audioread/python3-audioread.INSTALL.msg
rename to srcpkgs/python3-audioread/INSTALL.msg
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-audioread/template b/srcpkgs/python3-audioread/template
similarity index 50%
rename from srcpkgs/python-audioread/template
rename to srcpkgs/python3-audioread/template
index bc878d4b82..41ff43ccf4 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python-audioread/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-audioread/template
@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
-# Template file for 'python-audioread'
-pkgname=python-audioread
+# Template file for 'python3-audioread'
+pkgname=python3-audioread
 version=2.1.8
-revision=2
-archs=noarch
+revision=3
 wrksrc="audioread-${version}"
-build_style=python-module
-pycompile_module="audioread"
-hostmakedepends="python-setuptools python3-setuptools"
-depends="python"
-short_desc="Multi-library, cross-platform audio decoding (Python2)"
+build_style=python3-module
+hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools"
+depends="python3"
+short_desc="Multi-library, cross-platform audio decoding (Python3)"
 maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
 license="MIT"
 homepage="https://github.com/sampsyo/audioread/"
@@ -19,14 +17,3 @@ post_install() {
 	sed -n '2,13p' decode.py > LICENSE
 	vlicense LICENSE
 }
-
-python3-audioread_package() {
-	archs=noarch
-	depends="python3"
-	pycompile_module="audioread"
-	short_desc="${short_desc/Python2/Python3}"
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove usr/lib/python3*
-		vlicense LICENSE
-	}
-}