diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/keyfinder/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/keyfinder/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 24a72501db54..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/keyfinder/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, mkDerivation, fetchFromGitHub, libav_0_8, libkeyfinder, qtbase, qtxmlpatterns, qmake, taglib }:
-
-mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "keyfinder";
-  version = "2.4";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    sha256 = "11yhdwan7bz8nn8vxr54drckyrnlxynhx5s981i475bbccg8g7ls";
-    rev = "530034d6fe86d185f6a68b817f8db5f552f065d7"; # tag is missing
-    repo = "is_KeyFinder";
-    owner = "ibsh";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ qmake ];
-  buildInputs = [ libav_0_8 libkeyfinder qtbase qtxmlpatterns taglib ];
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace is_KeyFinder.pro \
-       --replace "-stdlib=libc++" "" \
-       --replace "\$\$[QT_INSTALL_PREFIX]" "$out"
-  '';
-
-  dontWrapQtApps = true;
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Musical key detection for digital audio (graphical UI)";
-    longDescription = ''
-      KeyFinder is an open source key detection tool, for DJs interested in
-      harmonic and tonal mixing. Designed primarily for electronic and dance
-      music, it is highly configurable and can be applied to many genres. It
-      supports a huge range of codecs thanks to LibAV, and writes to metadata
-      tags using TagLib. It's intended to be very focused: no library
-      management, no track suggestions, no media player. Just a fast,
-      efficient workflow tool.
-    '';
-    homepage = "https://www.ibrahimshaath.co.uk/keyfinder/";
-    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
-    platforms = platforms.linux;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index ca3f074d2fe6..c40f88180c1d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -722,6 +722,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   keepkey_agent = keepkey-agent; # added 2024-01-06
   kerberos = libkrb5; # moved from top-level 2021-03-14
   kexectools = kexec-tools; # Added 2021-09-03
+  keyfinger = throw "keyfinder has been removed as it was abandoned upstream and did not build; consider using mixxx or keyfinder-cli"; # Addd 2024-08-25
   keysmith = libsForQt5.kdeGear.keysmith; # Added 2021-07-14
   kfctl = throw "kfctl is broken and has been archived by upstream"; # Added 2023-08-21
   kgx = gnome-console; # Added 2022-02-19
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 02732f83265d..02fd64b21203 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -31231,8 +31231,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   khronos = callPackage ../applications/office/khronos { };
 
-  keyfinder = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/audio/keyfinder { };
-
   keyfinder-cli = callPackage ../applications/audio/keyfinder-cli { };
 
   kfilt = callPackage ../applications/networking/cluster/kfilt { };