diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/transcribe/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/transcribe/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index d9469fa4b7a..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/transcribe/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchzip, wrapGAppsHook, alsaLib, atk, cairo, gdk-pixbuf
-, glib, gst_all_1,  gtk3, libSM, libX11, libpng12, pango, zlib }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "transcribe";
-  version = "8.72";
-
-  src = if stdenv.hostPlatform.system == "i686-linux" then
-    fetchzip {
-      url = "https://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/downlinux32/xscsetup.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "1h5l7ry9c9awpxfnd29b0wm973ifrhj17xl5d2fdsclw2swsickb";
-    }
-  else if stdenv.hostPlatform.system == "x86_64-linux" then
-    fetchzip {
-      url = "https://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/downlinux64/xsc64setup.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "1rpd3ppnx5i5yrnfbjrx7h7dk48kwl99i9lnpa75ap7nxvbiznm0";
-    }
-  else throw "Platform not supported";
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ wrapGAppsHook ];
-
-  buildInputs = with gst_all_1; [ gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good
-    gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-ugly ];
-
-  dontPatchELF = true;
-
-  libPath = with gst_all_1; stdenv.lib.makeLibraryPath [
-    stdenv.cc.cc glib gtk3 atk pango cairo gdk-pixbuf alsaLib
-    libX11 libSM libpng12 gstreamer gst-plugins-base zlib
-  ];
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    mkdir -p $out/bin $out/libexec $out/share/doc
-    cp transcribe $out/libexec
-    cp xschelp.htb readme_gtk.html $out/share/doc
-    cp -r gtkicons $out/share/icons
-
-    ln -s $out/share/doc/xschelp.htb $out/libexec
-
-    patchelf \
-      --set-interpreter $(cat ${stdenv.cc}/nix-support/dynamic-linker) \
-      $out/libexec/transcribe
-  '';
-
-  preFixup = ''
-    gappsWrapperArgs+=(
-      --prefix GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH : "$GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH_1_0"
-      --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : "${libPath}"
-    )
-  '';
-
-  postFixup = ''
-    ln -s $out/libexec/transcribe $out/bin/
-  '';
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "Software to help transcribe recorded music";
-    longDescription = ''
-      The Transcribe! application is an assistant for people who want
-      to work out a piece of music from a recording, in order to write
-      it out, or play it themselves, or both. It doesn't do the
-      transcribing for you, but it is essentially a specialised player
-      program which is optimised for the purpose of transcription. It
-      has many transcription-specific features not found on
-      conventional music players.
-    '';
-    homepage = "https://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/";
-    license = licenses.unfree;
-    platforms = platforms.linux;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ michalrus ];
-    broken = true;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 0f21c24af67..006903efdc5 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -601,6 +601,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   torch-repl = throw "torch-repl has been removed, as the upstream project has been abandoned"; # added 2020-03-28
   torchPackages = throw "torchPackages has been removed, as the upstream project has been abandoned"; # added 2020-03-28
   trang = jing-trang; # added 2018-04-25
+  transcribe = throw "transcribe has been removed after being marked a broken for over a year"; # added 2020-09-16
   transmission_gtk = transmission-gtk; # added 2018-01-06
   transmission_remote_gtk = transmission-remote-gtk; # added 2018-01-06
   transporter = throw "transporter has been removed. It was archived upstream, so it's considered abandoned.";
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 4c12a1104bd..ba56e09c8cf 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -23538,8 +23538,6 @@ in
 
   transcode = callPackage ../applications/audio/transcode { };
 
-  transcribe = callPackage ../applications/audio/transcribe { };
-
   transmission = callPackage ../applications/networking/p2p/transmission { };
   transmission-gtk = transmission.override { enableGTK3 = true; };
   transmission-qt = transmission.override { enableQt = true; };