diff --git a/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/default.nix
index 70d3b644d692..b0d7e1a40f2b 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {
   lib,
   callPackage,
+  config,
   fetchFromGitHub,
   python3Packages,
   fetchpatch,
@@ -70,6 +71,6 @@ lib.makeExtensible (self: {
   alternatives = callPackage ./plugins/alternatives.nix { beets = self.beets-minimal; };
   audible = callPackage ./plugins/audible.nix { beets = self.beets-minimal; };
   copyartifacts = callPackage ./plugins/copyartifacts.nix { beets = self.beets-minimal; };
-
+} // lib.optionalAttrs config.allowAliases {
   extrafiles = throw "extrafiles is unmaintained since 2020 and broken since beets 2.0.0";
 })