diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
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index 55f31fe..0000000
--- a/.cvsignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-xmms-scrobbler-0.4.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
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index b22ae3b..0000000
--- a/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# Makefile for source rpm: xmms-scrobbler
-# $Id$
-NAME := xmms-scrobbler
-SPECFILE = $(firstword $(wildcard *.spec))
-
-define find-makefile-common
-for d in common ../common ../../common ; do if [ -f $$d/Makefile.common ] ; then if [ -f $$d/CVS/Root -a -w $$/Makefile.common ] ; then cd $$d ; cvs -Q update ; fi ; echo "$$d/Makefile.common" ; break ; fi ; done
-endef
-
-MAKEFILE_COMMON := $(shell $(find-makefile-common))
-
-ifeq ($(MAKEFILE_COMMON),)
-# attept a checkout
-define checkout-makefile-common
-test -f CVS/Root && { cvs -Q -d $$(cat CVS/Root) checkout common && echo "common/Makefile.common" ; } || { echo "ERROR: I can't figure out how to checkout the 'common' module." ; exit -1 ; } >&2
-endef
-
-MAKEFILE_COMMON := $(shell $(checkout-makefile-common))
-endif
-
-include $(MAKEFILE_COMMON)
diff --git a/dead.package b/dead.package
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/dead.package
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+2016-05-30: Retired because of broken deps in preparation of Fedora 24
+Reference: https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/
+
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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index 704f75a..0000000
--- a/sources
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-a50de221dfb2cd87d803d22655df3dad  xmms-scrobbler-0.4.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/xmms-scrobbler.spec b/xmms-scrobbler.spec
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@@ -1,88 +0,0 @@
-%define xmms_plugindir %(xmms-config --general-plugin-dir 2>/dev/null || echo %{_libdir}/xmms/General)
-
-Summary: Audioscrobbler plugin for XMMS
-Name: xmms-scrobbler
-Version: 0.4.0
-Release: 7%{?dist}
-License: LGPLv2+
-Group: Applications/Multimedia
-URL: http://xmms-scrobbler.sommitrealweird.co.uk/
-Source: http://xmms-scrobbler.sommitrealweird.co.uk/download/xmms-scrobbler-%{version}.tar.gz
-BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
-Requires: xmms >= 1.2.4
-BuildRequires: xmms-devel >= 1.2.4, libmusicbrainz-devel >= 2.0.0, curl-devel, bc
-BuildRequires: taglib-devel
-
-%description
-XMMS Scrobbler is a plugin for xmms that reports your music listening to last.fm.
-
-
-%prep
-%setup -q
-
-
-%build
-%configure \
-	--disable-bmp-plugin \
-	--libdir=%{xmms_plugindir} \
-
-make %{?_smp_mflags}
-
-
-%install
-rm -rf %{buildroot}
-make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot}
-
-find %{buildroot} -name '*.la' -exec rm -f {} \;
-
-%clean
-rm -rf %{buildroot}
-
-
-%files
-%defattr(-, root, root, -)
-%doc AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING README README.tags KnownIssues TODO
-%{xmms_plugindir}/libxmms_scrobbler.so
-
-
-%changelog
-* Wed Mar 18 2009 Robert Scheck <robert@fedoraproject.org> - 0.4.0-7
-- Rebuilt against libmusicbrainz < 3.0.0
-
-* Thu Feb 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.4.0-6
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Thu Feb 19 2009 Andreas Thienemann <andreas@bawue.net> - 0.4.0-5
-- Rebuilt against newer libmusicbrainz
-
-* Fri Jun  6 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> - 0.4.0-4
-- fix license tag
-- add bc as BuildRequires (configure uses it)
-- add taglib-devel as BuildRequires
-
-* Tue Feb 19 2008 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.4.0-3
-- Autorebuild for GCC 4.3
-
-* Mon Feb 18 2008 Andreas Thienemann <andreas@bawue.net> - 0.4.0-2
-- Rebuilt against gcc43
-
-* Fri Aug 31 2007 Andreas Thienemann <andreas@bawue.net> - 0.4.0-1
-- Updated to new upstream release 0.4.0
-
-* Mon Nov 06 2006 Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com> - 0.3.8.1-3
-- rebuild against the new curl
-
-* Fri Sep 08 2006 Andreas Thienemann <andreas@bawue.net> - 0.3.8.1-2
-- FE6 Rebuild
-
-* Thu Apr 27 2006 Andreas Thienemann <andreas@bawue.net> 0.3.8.1-1
-- Updated to 0.3.8.1
-
-* Thu Apr 27 2006 Andreas Thienemann <andreas@bawue.net> 0.3.8-1
-- Updated to 0.3.8
-
-* Thu Apr 27 2006 Andreas Thienemann <andreas@bawue.net> 0.3.6-2
-- Fixed permissions
-
-* Mon Apr 24 2006 Andreas Thienemann <andreas@bawue.net> 0.3.6-1
-- Initial FE package