diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/r128gain/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/r128gain/default.nix
index 17f6840d4e22..3044acb32649 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/r128gain/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/r128gain/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 { lib
 , fetchFromGitHub
+, genericUpdater
 , substituteAll
+, common-updater-scripts
 , ffmpeg_3
 , python3Packages
 , sox
@@ -8,13 +10,13 @@
 
 python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
   pname = "r128gain";
-  version = "1.0.1";
+  version = "1.0.3";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "desbma";
     repo = "r128gain";
     rev = version;
-    sha256 = "0fnxis2g7mw8mb0cz9bws909lrndli7ml54nnzda49vc2fhbjwxr";
+    sha256 = "0w2i2szajv1vcmc96w0fczdr8xc28ijcf1gdg180f21gi6yh96sc";
   };
 
   patches = [
@@ -33,6 +35,13 @@ python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
   # sandbox to be disabled.
   doCheck = false;
 
+  passthru = {
+    updateScript = genericUpdater {
+      inherit pname version;
+      versionLister = "${common-updater-scripts}/bin/list-git-tags ${src.meta.homepage}";
+    };
+  };
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Fast audio loudness scanner & tagger (ReplayGain v2 / R128)";
     homepage = "https://github.com/desbma/r128gain";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/r128gain/ffmpeg-location.patch b/pkgs/applications/audio/r128gain/ffmpeg-location.patch
index ff118024011e..c01f115c1d6d 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/r128gain/ffmpeg-location.patch
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/r128gain/ffmpeg-location.patch
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-diff --git i/r128gain/__init__.py w/r128gain/__init__.py
-index 53fc3ef..f144e15 100755
 --- i/r128gain/__init__.py
 +++ w/r128gain/__init__.py
 @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ def get_ffmpeg_lib_versions(ffmpeg_path=None):
@@ -14,7 +12,7 @@ index 53fc3ef..f144e15 100755
 @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ def get_r128_loudness(audio_filepaths, *, calc_peak=True, enable_ffmpeg_threadin
                                       os.devnull,
                                       **additional_ffmpeg_args,
-                                      f="null"),
+                                      f="null").global_args("-hide_banner", "-nostats"),
 -                       cmd=ffmpeg_path or "ffmpeg")
 +                       cmd=ffmpeg_path or "@ffmpeg@/bin/ffmpeg")