diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/bs1770gain/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/bs1770gain/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 76a789356193..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/bs1770gain/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, ffmpeg, sox }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "bs1770gain";
-  version = "0.5.2";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/bs1770gain/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1p6yz5q7czyf9ard65sp4kawdlkg40cfscr3b24znymmhs3p7rbk";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [ ffmpeg sox ];
-
-  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-Wno-error";
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "A audio/video loudness scanner implementing ITU-R BS.1770";
-    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
-    homepage = "http://bs1770gain.sourceforge.net/";
-    platforms = platforms.all;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 6f95da017edd..4a4277c20729 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   bittorrentSync = throw "bittorrentSync has been deprecated by resilio-sync."; # added 2019-06-03
   bittorrentSync14 = throw "bittorrentSync14 has been deprecated by resilio-sync."; # added 2019-06-03
   bittorrentSync20 = throw "bittorrentSync20 has been deprecated by resilio-sync."; # added 2019-06-03
+  bs1770gain = throw "bs1770gain has been removed from nixpkgs, as it had no maintainer or reverse dependencies."; # added 2021-01-02
   btc1 = throw "btc1 has been removed, it was abandoned by upstream"; # added 2020-11-03
   buildPerlPackage = perlPackages.buildPerlPackage; # added 2018-10-12
   buildGo112Package = throw "buildGo112Package has been removed"; # added 2020-04-26
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index f50bab07a261..52e405344c32 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -20729,8 +20729,6 @@ in
 
   bristol = callPackage ../applications/audio/bristol { };
 
-  bs1770gain = callPackage ../applications/audio/bs1770gain { };
-
   bjumblr = callPackage ../applications/audio/bjumblr { };
 
   bschaffl = callPackage ../applications/audio/bschaffl { };