diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/audacity/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/audacity/default.nix
index adb8e170feb..e4a3874de41 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/audacity/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/audacity/default.nix
@@ -1,36 +1,19 @@
-args: with args;
-	let localDefs = builderDefs.passthru.function { 
-	  src = 
-		fetchurl {
-			url = mirror://sourceforge/audacity/audacity-src-1.3.3.tar.gz;
-			sha256 = "17bjc2rnqspg1mbay4b1hhgg08iadapwf6w98gbv3r84rv1mhgls";
-		};
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, wxGTK, pkgconfig, gettext, gtk, glib, zlib }:
 
-  	buildInputs =[(wxGTK null) libogg libvorbis libsndfile libmad pkgconfig gtk 
-		gettext glib];
-	};
-	in with localDefs;
-let 
-	postInstall = FullDepEntry ("
-		old_rpath=$(patchelf --print-rpath \$out/bin/audacity);
-		patchelf --set-rpath \$old_rpath:${gtk}/lib:${glib}/lib \$out/bin/audacity;
-	") [minInit];
-	preBuild = FullDepEntry ("
-		sed -e '/\\/usr\\/local\\/lib\\/ladspa/awxGetApp()."+
-			"AddUniquePathToPathList(wxGetenv(wxT(\"HOME\"))+"+
-			"wxT(\"/.ladspa-plugins\"), pathList);'
-
-	") [minInit];
-in
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "audacity-1.3.3";
+  name = "audacity-1.3.7";
 
-  builder = writeScript "audacity-1.3.3-builder"
-		(textClosure localDefs [addInputs (doDump "0") (noDepEntry "echo \$PATH; ar --version") doConfigure preBuild doMakeInstall postInstall doForceShare]);
+  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-fPIC -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lz";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = mirror://sourceforge/audacity/audacity-fullsrc-1.3.7.tar.bz2;
+    sha256 = "1kashc6cc6d5g6i59nqcrl795x1jqdh0lpg3msa1wckfj3hpljmy";
+  };
+  buildInputs = [ wxGTK pkgconfig gettext gtk glib zlib ];
 
   meta = {
-    description = "Audacity sound editor.";
+    description = "Sound editor with graphical UI";
     homepage = http://audacity.sourceforge.net;
-    inherit src;
+    license = "GPLv2+";
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index e1105bcc9b4..ff4742ba6e7 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7691,11 +7691,9 @@ let
   };
 
   audacity = import ../applications/audio/audacity {
-    inherit fetchurl stdenv libogg libvorbis libsndfile libmad
-      pkgconfig gettext;
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv gettext pkgconfig zlib;
     inherit (gtkLibs) gtk glib;
-    wxGTK = wxGTK28deps;
-    inherit builderDefs stringsWithDeps;
+    wxGTK = wxGTK28;
   };
 
   aumix = import ../applications/audio/aumix {