diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/audio/mopidy.nix b/nixos/modules/services/audio/mopidy.nix
index 1d6c45b64a16..198ca74359dc 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/audio/mopidy.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/audio/mopidy.nix
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ in {
     systemd.services.mopidy = {
       wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
       after = [ "network-online.target" "sound.target" ];
+      wants = [ "network-online.target" ];
       description = "mopidy music player daemon";
       serviceConfig = {
         ExecStart = "${mopidyEnv}/bin/mopidy --config ${concatStringsSep ":" ([mopidyConf] ++ cfg.extraConfigFiles)}";