diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mediafile/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mediafile/default.nix
index 5d11d253b6d9..eb7fc8ca60ff 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mediafile/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mediafile/default.nix
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 { buildPythonPackage
-, enum34
-, fetchpatch
 , fetchPypi
-, isPy27
 , lib
 , mutagen
 , six
@@ -10,30 +7,14 @@
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "mediafile";
-  version = "0.6.0";
+  version = "0.8.0";
 
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "sha256-o/tSAHu8FTr6LZoMHvegr9uCZovNLHS9KkP2U9y4uko=";
+    sha256 = "sha256-19K5DZMstRWu/6+N/McEdM1swedI5qr15kmnIAMA60Y=";
   };
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ mutagen six ] ++ lib.optional isPy27 enum34;
-
-  # NB: Remove in the next release
-  patches = [
-    (fetchpatch {
-      url = "https://github.com/beetbox/mediafile/commit/0ff753d493a1a7f406cb3378545ffe2c85a9afa3.patch";
-      sha256 = "sha256-AQ7YedoYPmLqt4a/odgghIKOY61i9YfA0To0RVFqlk8=";
-    })
-    (fetchpatch {
-      url = "https://github.com/beetbox/mediafile/commit/f0fb4e5111d9dfaa3b38d196ec41fcd237d97953.patch";
-      sha256 = "sha256-5O6RiAqkQEz3Bvqjwwv/LOS33nSIBnT2H/vasGGVrpI=";
-    })
-    (fetchpatch {
-      url = "https://github.com/beetbox/mediafile/commit/d2fc3b59f77c515b02dfe7ad936f89264375d2b4.patch";
-      sha256 = "sha256-SMH0XhCaKLDNB4M8VmZWfGuuelfY5xladZyQYtXtP18=";
-    })
-  ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ mutagen six ];
 
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "MediaFile is a simple interface to the metadata tags for many audio file formats.";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/plugins/extrafiles.nix b/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/plugins/extrafiles.nix
index 9118765cc1be..0d3ccc0d7a71 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/plugins/extrafiles.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/audio/beets/plugins/extrafiles.nix
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ pythonPackages.buildPythonApplication rec {
   postPatch = ''
     sed -i -e '/install_requires/,/\]/{/beets/d}' setup.py
     sed -i -e '/namespace_packages/d' setup.py
+    sed -i -e 's/mediafile~=0.6.0/mediafile>=0.6.0/' setup.py
   '';
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ beets ];