diff --git a/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/common.nix b/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/common.nix
index 440606bdd836..37faff29c728 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/common.nix
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
 , extraPatches ? [ ]
 , pluginOverrides ? { }
 , disableAllPlugins ? false
+, disabledTests ? []
+, extraNativeBuildInputs ? []
 
   # tests
 , runCommand
@@ -52,12 +54,6 @@ python3Packages.buildPythonApplication {
 
   patches = extraPatches;
 
-  postPatch = ''
-    # https://github.com/beetbox/beets/pull/4868
-    substituteInPlace beets/util/artresizer.py \
-      --replace "Image.ANTIALIAS" "Image.Resampling.LANCZOS"
-  '';
-
   propagatedBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [
     confuse
     gst-python
@@ -76,7 +72,7 @@ python3Packages.buildPythonApplication {
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     gobject-introspection
     sphinxHook
-  ];
+  ] ++ extraNativeBuildInputs;
 
   buildInputs = [
   ] ++ (with gst_all_1; [
@@ -93,24 +89,6 @@ python3Packages.buildPythonApplication {
     cp extra/_beet $out/share/zsh/site-functions/
   '';
 
-  doInstallCheck = true;
-
-  installCheckPhase = ''
-    runHook preInstallCheck
-
-    tmphome="$(mktemp -d)"
-
-    EDITOR="${writeScript "beetconfig.sh" ''
-      #!${runtimeShell}
-      cat > "$1" <<CFG
-      plugins: ${lib.concatStringsSep " " (attrNames enabledPlugins)}
-      CFG
-    ''}" HOME="$tmphome" "$out/bin/beet" config -e
-    EDITOR=true HOME="$tmphome" "$out/bin/beet" config -e
-
-    runHook postInstallCheck
-  '';
-
   makeWrapperArgs = [
     "--set GI_TYPELIB_PATH \"$GI_TYPELIB_PATH\""
     "--set GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH_1_0 \"$GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH_1_0\""
@@ -118,17 +96,17 @@ python3Packages.buildPythonApplication {
   ];
 
   nativeCheckInputs = with python3Packages; [
-    pytest
+    pytestCheckHook
     mock
     rarfile
     responses
   ] ++ pluginWrapperBins;
 
   disabledTestPaths = lib.flatten (attrValues (lib.mapAttrs (n: v: v.testPaths ++ [ "test/test_${n}.py" ]) disabledPlugins));
+  inherit disabledTests;
 
-  checkPhase = ''
-    runHook preCheck
-
+  # Perform extra "sanity checks", before running pytest tests.
+  preCheck = ''
     # Check for undefined plugins
     find beetsplug -mindepth 1 \
       \! -path 'beetsplug/__init__.py' -a \
@@ -140,19 +118,13 @@ python3Packages.buildPythonApplication {
     export BEETS_TEST_SHELL="${bashInteractive}/bin/bash --norc"
     export HOME="$(mktemp -d)"
 
-    args=" -m pytest -r fEs"
-    eval "disabledTestPaths=($disabledTestPaths)"
-    for path in ''${disabledTestPaths[@]}; do
-      if [ -e "$path" ]; then
-        args+=" --ignore $path"
-      else
-        echo "Skipping non-existent test path '$path'"
-      fi
-    done
-
-    python $args
-
-    runHook postCheck
+    env EDITOR="${writeScript "beetconfig.sh" ''
+      #!${runtimeShell}
+      cat > "$1" <<CFG
+      plugins: ${lib.concatStringsSep " " (attrNames enabledPlugins)}
+      CFG
+    ''}" "$out/bin/beet" config -e
+    env EDITOR=true "$out/bin/beet" config -e
   '';
 
 
@@ -160,19 +132,17 @@ python3Packages.buildPythonApplication {
 
   passthru.tests.gstreamer = runCommand "beets-gstreamer-test" {
     meta.timeout = 60;
-  }
-  ''
-  set -euo pipefail
-  export HOME=$(mktemp -d)
-  mkdir $out
+  } ''
+    set -euo pipefail
+    export HOME=$(mktemp -d)
+    mkdir $out
 
-  cat << EOF > $out/config.yaml
+    cat << EOF > $out/config.yaml
 replaygain:
   backend: gstreamer
 EOF
 
-  echo $out/config.yaml
-  ${beets}/bin/beet -c $out/config.yaml > /dev/null
+    ${beets}/bin/beet -c $out/config.yaml > /dev/null
   '';
 
   meta = with lib; {
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/default.nix
index 7f5c3bbceae9..c78ccced9a80 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/default.nix
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 , callPackage
 , fetchFromGitHub
 , fetchpatch
+, python3Packages
 }:
 /*
 ** To customize the enabled beets plugins, use the pluginOverrides input to the
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@ lib.makeExtensible (self: {
   beets = self.beets-stable;
 
   beets-stable = callPackage ./common.nix rec {
+    inherit python3Packages;
     version = "1.6.0";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       owner = "beetbox";
@@ -41,27 +43,46 @@ lib.makeExtensible (self: {
       # https://github.com/beetbox/beets/pull/4839
       # The upstream patch does not apply on 1.6.0, as the related code has been refactored since
       ./patches/fix-embedart-imagick-7.1.1-12.patch
+      # Pillow 10 compatibility fix, a backport of
+      # https://github.com/beetbox/beets/pull/4868, which doesn't apply now
+      ./patches/fix-pillow10-compat.patch
+    ];
+    disabledTests = [
+      # This issue is present on this version alone, and can be removed on the
+      # next stable version version bump. Since this is fixed in branch master,
+      # we don't have a bug ticket open for this. As of writing, it also seems
+      # hard to find a patch that can be backported to v1.6.0 that would fix
+      # the failure, as the master branch has gone through too many changes
+      # now.
+      "test_get_single_item_by_path"
     ];
   };
 
   beets-minimal = self.beets.override { disableAllPlugins = true; };
 
   beets-unstable = callPackage ./common.nix {
-    version = "unstable-2023-07-05";
+    inherit python3Packages;
+    version = "unstable-2023-10-26";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       owner = "beetbox";
       repo = "beets";
-      rev = "9481402b3c20739ca0b879d19adbfca22ccd6a44";
-      hash = "sha256-AKmozMNVchysoQcUWd90Ic6bQBKQgylVn0E3i85dGb8=";
+      rev = "6655760732100f5387fad2d2890c015ee5039981";
+      hash = "sha256-Nz9BHtacYpJMLmB3f9WFg6GvMa+BuUhiNbJ9cyannek=";
     };
     extraPatches = [
       # Bash completion fix for Nix
       ./patches/unstable-bash-completion-always-print.patch
     ];
     pluginOverrides = {
-      # unstable has a new plugin, so we register it here.
+      # unstable has new plugins, so we register them here.
       limit = { builtin = true; };
+      substitute = { builtin = true; };
+      advancedrewrite = { builtin = true; };
+      autobpm = { builtin = true; };
     };
+    extraNativeBuildInputs = [
+      python3Packages.pydata-sphinx-theme
+    ];
   };
 
   alternatives = callPackage ./plugins/alternatives.nix { beets = self.beets-minimal; };
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/patches/fix-pillow10-compat.patch b/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/patches/fix-pillow10-compat.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f85eec20156c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/patches/fix-pillow10-compat.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git i/beets/util/artresizer.py w/beets/util/artresizer.py
+index 8683e228..6f99c79e 100644
+--- i/beets/util/artresizer.py
++++ w/beets/util/artresizer.py
+@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ def pil_resize(maxwidth, path_in, path_out=None, quality=0, max_filesize=0):
+     try:
+         im = Image.open(util.syspath(path_in))
+         size = maxwidth, maxwidth
+-        im.thumbnail(size, Image.ANTIALIAS)
++        im.thumbnail(size, Image.Resampling.LANCZOS)
+ 
+         if quality == 0:
+             # Use PIL's default quality.
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/patches/unstable-bash-completion-always-print.patch b/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/patches/unstable-bash-completion-always-print.patch
index 395f40f92c98..96b175117572 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/patches/unstable-bash-completion-always-print.patch
+++ b/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/patches/unstable-bash-completion-always-print.patch
@@ -1,34 +1,36 @@
-diff --git a/beets/ui/commands.py b/beets/ui/commands.py
-index 1377ad0c..e178eeae 100755
---- a/beets/ui/commands.py
-+++ b/beets/ui/commands.py
-@@ -1831,20 +1831,6 @@ default_commands.append(config_cmd)
+diff --git i/beets/ui/commands.py w/beets/ui/commands.py
+index ad4f7821..5077191d 100755
+--- i/beets/ui/commands.py
++++ w/beets/ui/commands.py
+@@ -2381,22 +2381,6 @@ default_commands.append(config_cmd)
  def print_completion(*args):
      for line in completion_script(default_commands + plugins.commands()):
-         print_(line, end='')
+         print_(line, end="")
 -    if not any(os.path.isfile(syspath(p)) for p in BASH_COMPLETION_PATHS):
--        log.warning('Warning: Unable to find the bash-completion package. '
--                    'Command line completion might not work.')
+-        log.warning(
+-            "Warning: Unable to find the bash-completion package. "
+-            "Command line completion might not work."
+-        )
 -
 -
 -BASH_COMPLETION_PATHS = [
--    b'/etc/bash_completion',
--    b'/usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion',
--    b'/usr/local/share/bash-completion/bash_completion',
+-    b"/etc/bash_completion",
+-    b"/usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion",
+-    b"/usr/local/share/bash-completion/bash_completion",
 -    # SmartOS
--    b'/opt/local/share/bash-completion/bash_completion',
+-    b"/opt/local/share/bash-completion/bash_completion",
 -    # Homebrew (before bash-completion2)
--    b'/usr/local/etc/bash_completion',
+-    b"/usr/local/etc/bash_completion",
 -]
  
  
  def completion_script(commands):
-diff --git a/test/test_ui.py b/test/test_ui.py
-index f66917dc..f3d934c6 100644
---- a/test/test_ui.py
-+++ b/test/test_ui.py
-@@ -1310,12 +1310,7 @@ class CompletionTest(_common.TestCase, TestHelper):
-                                   stdout=subprocess.PIPE, env=env)
+diff --git i/test/test_ui.py w/test/test_ui.py
+index cae86148..faf266a8 100644
+--- i/test/test_ui.py
++++ w/test/test_ui.py
+@@ -1434,12 +1434,7 @@ class CompletionTest(_common.TestCase, TestHelper):
+         )
  
          # Load bash_completion library.
 -        for path in commands.BASH_COMPLETION_PATHS:
@@ -36,8 +38,8 @@ index f66917dc..f3d934c6 100644
 -                bash_completion = path
 -                break
 -        else:
--            self.skipTest('bash-completion script not found')
-+        self.skipTest('bash-completion script not found')
+-            self.skipTest("bash-completion script not found")
++        self.skipTest("bash-completion script not found")
          try:
-             with open(util.syspath(bash_completion), 'rb') as f:
+             with open(util.syspath(bash_completion), "rb") as f:
                  tester.stdin.writelines(f)