diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/li/libxplayer-plparser/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/li/libxplayer-plparser/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index e6c64a78d06d..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/li/libxplayer-plparser/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-{
-  stdenv,
-  lib,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  meson,
-  ninja,
-  gobject-introspection,
-  gmime3,
-  libxml2,
-  libsoup_2_4,
-  pkg-config,
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "xplayer-plparser";
-  version = "1.0.3";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "linuxmint";
-    repo = pname;
-    rev = version;
-    hash = "sha256-6GMKsIpyQdiyHPxrjWHAHvuCouJxrAcYPIo9u6TLOA4=";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
-    meson
-    ninja
-    pkg-config
-    gobject-introspection
-  ];
-
-  buildInputs = [
-    gmime3
-    libxml2
-    libsoup_2_4
-  ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Playlist parsing library for xplayer";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/linuxmint/xplayer-plparser";
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [
-      tu-maurice
-      bobby285271
-    ];
-    license = licenses.lgpl2Plus;
-    platforms = platforms.linux;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 45f8ef708531..11efd373151c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -684,6 +684,7 @@ mapAliases {
   libusb = throw "'libusb' has been renamed to/replaced by 'libusb1'"; # Converted to throw 2024-10-17
   libvpx_1_8 = throw "libvpx_1_8 has been removed because it is impacted by security issues and not used in nixpkgs, move to 'libvpx'"; # Added 2024-07-26
   libwnck3 = libwnck;
+  libxplayer-plparser = throw "libxplayer-plparser has been removed as the upstream project was archived"; # Added 2024-12-27
   libyamlcpp = yaml-cpp; # Added 2023-01-29
   libyamlcpp_0_3 = yaml-cpp_0_3; # Added 2023-01-29
   lightdm_gtk_greeter = lightdm-gtk-greeter; # Added 2022-08-01