diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/musikcube/0001-apple-cmake.patch b/pkgs/applications/audio/musikcube/0001-apple-cmake.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 3c4630af4aa7..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/musikcube/0001-apple-cmake.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/src/musikcube/CMakeLists.txt b/src/musikcube/CMakeLists.txt
-index f42748aa..ae339946 100644
---- a/src/musikcube/CMakeLists.txt
-+++ b/src/musikcube/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -98,9 +98,6 @@ else()
- endif()
- 
- if (APPLE)
--    message(STATUS "[ncurses] detected Darwin, linking statically")
--    set(CURSES_LIBRARY_NAME "lib${CURSES_LIBRARY_NAME}.a")
--    set(PANEL_LIBRARY_NAME "lib${PANEL_LIBRARY_NAME}.a")
- else()
-     message(STATUS "[ncurses] not Darwin! will attempt to link against libtinfo")
-     find_library(LIBTINFO NAMES tinfo)
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/musikcube/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/musikcube/default.nix
index 0894a6410d88..273b62401e87 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/musikcube/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/musikcube/default.nix
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 , lame
 , libev
 , libmicrohttpd
+, libopenmpt
+, mpg123
 , ncurses
 , lib
 , stdenv
@@ -25,25 +27,25 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "musikcube";
-  version = "0.97.0";
+  version = "0.98.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "clangen";
     repo = pname;
     rev = version;
-    sha256 = "sha256-W9Ng1kqai5qhaDs5KWg/1sOTIAalBXLng1MG8sl/ZOg=";
+    sha256 = "sha256-bnwOxEcvRXWPuqtkv8YlpclvH/6ZtQvyvHy4mqJCwik=";
   };
 
-  patches = [
-    # Fix pending upstream inclusion for ncurses-6.3 support:
-    #  https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/pull/474
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "ncurses-6.3.patch";
-      url = "https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/commit/1240720e27232fdb199a4da93ca6705864442026.patch";
-      sha256 = "0bhjgwnj6d24wb1m9xz1vi1k9xk27arba1absjbcimggn54pinid";
-    })
-    ./0001-apple-cmake.patch
-  ];
+  patches = []
+    ++ lib.optionals stdenv.isDarwin [
+      # Fix pending upstream inclusion for Darwin nixpkgs builds:
+      # https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/pull/531
+      (fetchpatch {
+        name = "darwin-build.patch";
+        url = "https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/commit/9077bb9fa6ddfe93ebb14bb8feebc8a0ef9b7ee4.patch";
+        sha256 = "sha256-Am9AGKDGMN5z+JJFJKdsBLrHf2neHFovgF/8I5EXLDA=";
+      })
+    ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     cmake
@@ -58,6 +60,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     lame
     libev
     libmicrohttpd
+    libopenmpt
+    mpg123
     ncurses
     taglib
   ] ++ lib.optionals systemdSupport [