diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/google-play-music-desktop-player/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/google-play-music-desktop-player/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 74286073b904..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/google-play-music-desktop-player/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,82 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, alsa-lib, atk, at-spi2-atk, cairo, cups, dbus, dpkg, expat, fontconfig, freetype
-, fetchurl, GConf, gdk-pixbuf, glib, gtk2, gtk3, libpulseaudio, makeWrapper, nspr
-, nss, pango, udev, xorg
-}:
-
-let
-  version = "4.7.1";
-
-  deps = [
-    alsa-lib
-    atk
-    at-spi2-atk
-    cairo
-    cups
-    dbus
-    expat
-    fontconfig
-    freetype
-    GConf
-    gdk-pixbuf
-    glib
-    gtk2
-    gtk3
-    libpulseaudio
-    nspr
-    nss
-    pango
-    stdenv.cc.cc
-    udev
-    xorg.libX11
-    xorg.libxcb
-    xorg.libXcomposite
-    xorg.libXcursor
-    xorg.libXdamage
-    xorg.libXext
-    xorg.libXfixes
-    xorg.libXi
-    xorg.libXrandr
-    xorg.libXrender
-    xorg.libXScrnSaver
-    xorg.libXtst
-  ];
-
-in
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  pname = "google-play-music-desktop-player";
-  inherit version;
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-/releases/download/v${version}/google-play-music-desktop-player_${version}_amd64.deb";
-    sha256 = "1ljm9c5sv6wa7pa483yq03wq9j1h1jdh8363z5m2imz407yzgm5r";
-  };
-
-  dontBuild = true;
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ dpkg makeWrapper ];
-
-  unpackPhase = ''
-    dpkg -x $src .
-  '';
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    mkdir -p $out
-    cp -r ./usr/share $out
-    cp -r ./usr/bin $out
-
-    patchelf --set-interpreter "$(cat $NIX_CC/nix-support/dynamic-linker)" \
-             "$out/share/google-play-music-desktop-player/Google Play Music Desktop Player"
-
-    wrapProgram $out/bin/google-play-music-desktop-player \
-      --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : "$out/share/google-play-music-desktop-player" \
-      --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : "${lib.makeLibraryPath deps}"
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/";
-    description = "A beautiful cross platform Desktop Player for Google Play Music and YouTube Music";
-    license = lib.licenses.mit;
-    platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" ];
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ anna328p SuprDewd ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index d264c5780681..2ca76cf4cc42 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -528,6 +528,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   google-musicmanager = throw "google-musicmanager has been removed because Google Play Music was discontinued"; # Added 2021-03-07
   google-music-scripts = throw "google-music-scripts has been removed because Google Play Music was discontinued"; # Added 2021-03-07
   gotags = throw "gotags has been dropped due to the lack of maintenance from upstream since 2018"; # Added 2022-06-03
+  google-play-music-desktop-player = throw "GPMDP shows a black screen, upstream homepage is dead, use 'ytmdesktop' instead"; # Added 2022-06-16
   go-mk = throw "go-mk has been dropped due to the lack of maintanence from upstream since 2015"; # Added 2022-06-02
   go-pup = throw "'go-pup' has been renamed to/replaced by 'pup'"; # Converted to throw 2022-02-22
   go-repo-root = throw "go-repo-root has been dropped due to the lack of maintanence from upstream since 2014"; # Added 2022-06-02
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 9325327707e3..3ebd39e8966b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -26995,10 +26995,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   google-chrome-dev = google-chrome.override { chromium = chromiumDev; channel = "dev"; };
 
-  google-play-music-desktop-player = callPackage ../applications/audio/google-play-music-desktop-player {
-    inherit (gnome2) GConf;
-  };
-
   gosmore = callPackage ../applications/misc/gosmore { stdenv = gcc10StdenvCompat; };
 
   gpsbabel = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/misc/gpsbabel { };