diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/abcde/abcde.patch b/pkgs/applications/audio/abcde/abcde.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ae187043e6c5..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/abcde/abcde.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-Two changes:
-
-* Add an alias for `which', so abcde can find things in store
-* Choose the right CDROM reader syntax for `cd-paranoia'
-
---- abcde-2.5.4/abcde~	2012-09-18 06:09:31.000000000 -0700
-+++ abcde-2.5.4/abcde	2012-10-27 00:08:48.000862364 -0700
-@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
- 
- VERSION='2.5.4'
- 
-+which ()
-+{
-+  type -P $1
-+}
-+
- usage ()
- {
- echo "This is abcde v$VERSION."
-@@ -3497,6 +3502,10 @@
- 	for DEFAULT_CDROMREADER in $DEFAULT_CDROMREADERS; do
- 		if new_checkexec $DEFAULT_CDROMREADER; then
- 			CDROMREADERSYNTAX=$DEFAULT_CDROMREADER
-+                        case "$DEFAULT_CDROMREADER" in
-+			  cd-paranoia)  CDROMREADERSYNTAX=cdparanoia;;
-+			  *)            CDROMREADERSYNTAX=$DEFAULT_CDROMREADER;;
-+			esac
- 			break
- 		fi
- 	done
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/abcde/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/abcde/default.nix
index 7f2080c6fd63..58e8ecc4fcab 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/abcde/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/abcde/default.nix
@@ -3,60 +3,58 @@
 , perl, MusicBrainz, MusicBrainzDiscID
 , makeWrapper }:
 
-let version = "2.8.1";
+let version = "2.9.2";
 in
   stdenv.mkDerivation {
     name = "abcde-${version}";
     src = fetchurl {
       url = "https://abcde.einval.com/download/abcde-${version}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0f9bjs0phk23vry7gvh0cll9vl6kmc1y4fwwh762scfdvpbp3774";
+      sha256 = "13c5yvp87ckqgha160ym5rdr1a4divgvyqbjh0yb6ffclip6qd9l";
     };
 
     # FIXME: This package does not support `distmp3', `eject', etc.
 
-    patches = [ ./abcde.patch ];
-
     configurePhase = ''
       sed -i "s|^[[:blank:]]*prefix *=.*$|prefix = $out|g ;
               s|^[[:blank:]]*etcdir *=.*$|etcdir = $out/etc|g ;
               s|^[[:blank:]]*INSTALL *=.*$|INSTALL = install -c|g" \
         "Makefile";
 
-      # We use `cd-paranoia' from GNU libcdio, which contains a hyphen
-      # in its name, unlike Xiph's cdparanoia.
-      sed -i "s|^[[:blank:]]*CDPARANOIA=.*$|CDPARANOIA=cd-paranoia|g ;
-              s|^[[:blank:]]*DEFAULT_CDROMREADERS=.*$|DEFAULT_CDROMREADERS=\"cd-paranoia cdda2wav\"|g" \
-        "abcde"
+      echo 'CDPARANOIA=${libcdio-paranoia}/bin/cd-paranoia' >>abcde.conf
+      echo CDROMREADERSYNTAX=cdparanoia >>abcde.conf
 
       substituteInPlace "abcde" \
         --replace "/etc/abcde.conf" "$out/etc/abcde.conf"
-
     '';
 
-    buildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
+    nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
 
-    propagatedBuildInputs = [ perl MusicBrainz MusicBrainzDiscID ];
+    buildInputs = [ perl MusicBrainz MusicBrainzDiscID ];
 
     installFlags = [ "sysconfdir=$(out)/etc" ];
 
     postFixup = ''
       for cmd in abcde cddb-tool abcde-musicbrainz-tool; do
-        wrapProgram "$out/bin/$cmd" --prefix PATH ":" \
-          ${stdenv.lib.makeBinPath [ "$out" which libcdio-paranoia cddiscid wget vorbis-tools id3v2 eyeD3 lame flac glyr ]}
+        wrapProgram "$out/bin/$cmd" \
+          --prefix PERL5LIB : "$PERL5LIB" \
+          --prefix PATH ":" ${stdenv.lib.makeBinPath [
+            "$out" which libcdio-paranoia cddiscid wget
+            vorbis-tools id3v2 eyeD3 lame flac glyr
+          ]}
       done
     '';
 
-    meta = {
+    meta = with stdenv.lib; {
       homepage = http://abcde.einval.com/wiki/;
-      license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
+      license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
+      maintainers = with maintainers; [ gebner ];
       description = "Command-line audio CD ripper";
-
       longDescription = ''
         abcde is a front-end command-line utility (actually, a shell
         script) that grabs tracks off a CD, encodes them to
         Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex and/or MPP/MP+ (Musepack)
         format, and tags them, all in one go.
       '';
-      platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+      platforms = platforms.linux;
     };
   }