diff --git a/gnu/local.mk b/gnu/local.mk
index 21e536a..fd5c696 100644
--- a/gnu/local.mk
+++ b/gnu/local.mk
@@ -854,8 +854,6 @@ dist_patch_DATA =						\
   %D%/packages/patches/ath9k-htc-firmware-gcc-compat.patch	\
   %D%/packages/patches/ath9k-htc-firmware-objcopy.patch		\
   %D%/packages/patches/atlas-gfortran-compat.patch		\
-  %D%/packages/patches/audacity-build-with-system-portaudio.patch \
-  %D%/packages/patches/audacity-add-include.patch 		\
   %D%/packages/patches/audiofile-fix-datatypes-in-tests.patch	\
   %D%/packages/patches/audiofile-fix-sign-conversion.patch	\
   %D%/packages/patches/audiofile-CVE-2015-7747.patch		\
diff --git a/gnu/packages/audio.scm b/gnu/packages/audio.scm
index 665631a..6b0c722 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/audio.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/audio.scm
@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ (define-public ardour
 (define-public audacity
   (package
     (name "audacity")
-    (version "2.4.2")
+    (version "3.1.3")
     (source
      (origin
        (method git-fetch)
@@ -733,9 +733,7 @@ (define-public audacity
        (file-name (git-file-name name version))
        (sha256
         (base32
-         "0lklcvqkxrr2gkb9gh3422iadzl2rv9v0a8s76rwq43lj2im7546"))
-       (patches (search-patches "audacity-build-with-system-portaudio.patch"
-                                "audacity-add-include.patch"))
+         "1689q9apbjf9nnda62shb8j7hm4hxd47mhk4l5h3c728mjjkilmi"))
        (modules '((guix build utils)))
        (snippet
         ;; Remove bundled libraries.
@@ -743,13 +741,10 @@ (define-public audacity
            (for-each
             (lambda (dir)
               (delete-file-recursively (string-append "lib-src/" dir)))
-            '("expat" "ffmpeg" "lame" "libflac" "libid3tag" "libmad" "libogg"
-              "libsndfile" "libsoxr" "libvamp" "libvorbis" "lv2"
-              "portmidi" "soundtouch" "twolame"
+            '("libsoxr" "libvamp" "lv2" "soundtouch" "sqlite" "twolame"
               ;; FIXME: these libraries have not been packaged yet:
               ;; "libnyquist"
               ;; "libscorealign"
-              ;; "libwidgetextra"
               ;; "portburn"
               ;; "portsmf"
               ;; "portmixer"
@@ -761,26 +756,30 @@ (define-public audacity
            #t))))
     (build-system cmake-build-system)
     (inputs
-     (list wxwidgets
+     (list wxwidgets-3.1
            gtk+
            alsa-lib
            jack-1
            expat
            ffmpeg
            lame
+           linux-libre-headers
            flac
            libid3tag
+           libjpeg-turbo
            libmad
            ;;("libsbsms" ,libsbsms)         ;bundled version is modified
            libsndfile
            soundtouch
            soxr ;replaces libsamplerate
+           sqlite
            twolame
            vamp
            libvorbis
            lv2
            lilv ;for lv2
            suil ;for lv2
+           portaudio
            portmidi))
     (native-inputs
      `(("autoconf" ,autoconf)
@@ -793,10 +792,12 @@ (define-public audacity
     (arguments
      `(#:configure-flags
        (list
-        ;; Loading FFmpeg dynamically is problematic.
-        "-Daudacity_use_ffmpeg=linked"
-        "-Daudacity_use_lame=system"
-        "-Daudacity_use_portsmf=system")
+        "-Daudacity_conan_enabled=off"
+        "-Daudacity_lib_preference=system"
+        ;; TODO: enable this flag once we've packaged all dependencies
+        ;; "-Daudacity_obey_system_dependencies=on"
+        ;; disable crash reports, updates, ..., anything that phones home
+        "-Daudacity_has_networking=off")
        #:imported-modules ((guix build glib-or-gtk-build-system)
                            ,@%cmake-build-system-modules)
        #:modules
@@ -805,27 +806,42 @@ (define-public audacity
         ((guix build glib-or-gtk-build-system) #:prefix glib-or-gtk:))
        #:phases
        (modify-phases %standard-phases
+         (add-after 'unpack 'fix-cmake-rpath
+           (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
+             (substitute* "CMakeLists.txt"
+               (("\\$ORIGIN/\\.\\./\\$\\{_PKGLIB\\}")
+                (string-append (assoc-ref outputs "out") "/lib/audacity"))
+               (("CMAKE_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH [A-Z]*")
+                "CMAKE_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH TRUE")
+               (("CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH_USE_LINK_PATH [A-Z]*")
+                "CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH_USE_LINK_PATH TRUE"))
+             (substitute* "src/CMakeLists.txt"
+               (("-Wl,--disable-new-dtags") "-Wl,--enable-new-dtags"))))
          (add-after 'unpack 'comment-out-revision-ident
            (lambda _
+             (substitute* "src/CMakeLists.txt"
+               (("file\\( TOUCH \".*RevisionIdent\\.h\" \\)" directive)
+                (string-append "# " directive)))
              (substitute* "src/AboutDialog.cpp"
                (("(.*RevisionIdent\\.h.*)" include-line)
                 (string-append "// " include-line)))))
          (add-after 'unpack 'use-upstream-headers
            (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
-             (substitute* '("src/NoteTrack.cpp"
-                            "src/AudioIO.cpp"
-                            "src/AudioIO.h"
-                            "src/AudioIOBase.cpp")
-               (("../lib-src/portmidi/pm_common/portmidi.h") "portmidi.h")
-               (("../lib-src/portmidi/porttime/porttime.h") "porttime.h"))
-             (substitute* "src/prefs/MidiIOPrefs.cpp"
-               (("../../lib-src/portmidi/pm_common/portmidi.h") "portmidi.h"))))
+             (substitute* '("libraries/lib-files/FileNames.cpp")
+               (("\"/usr/include/linux/magic.h\"") "<linux/magic.h>"))))
          (add-after 'wrap-program 'glib-or-gtk-wrap
            (assoc-ref glib-or-gtk:%standard-phases 'glib-or-gtk-wrap)))
-         ;; The test suite is not "well exercised" according to the developers,
-         ;; and fails with various errors.  See
-         ;; <http://sourceforge.net/p/audacity/mailman/message/33524292/>.
-         #:tests? #f))
+       ;; The test suite is not "well exercised" according to the developers,
+       ;; and fails with various errors.  See
+       ;; <http://sourceforge.net/p/audacity/mailman/message/33524292/>.
+       #:tests? #f))
+    (native-search-paths
+     (list (search-path-specification
+            (variable "AUDACITY_MODULES_PATH")
+            (files '("lib/audacity/modules")))
+           (search-path-specification
+            (variable "AUDACITY_PATH")
+            (files '("share/audacity")))))
     (home-page "https://www.audacityteam.org/")
     (synopsis "Software for recording and editing sounds")
     (description
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/audacity-add-include.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/audacity-add-include.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index a7f2791..0000000
--- a/gnu/packages/patches/audacity-add-include.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-Without <sys/time.h>, gettimeofday is undefined.
-
-diff --git a/src/AudioIO.cpp b/src/AudioIO.cpp
-index 0187e3962..e15d55f4c 100644
---- a/src/AudioIO.cpp
-+++ b/src/AudioIO.cpp
-@@ -479,6 +479,8 @@ time warp info and AudioIOListener and whether the playback is looped.
- #include "../lib-src/portmidi/porttime/porttime.h"
- #include "../lib-src/header-substitutes/allegro.h"
- 
-+#include <sys/time.h>
-+
-    #define MIDI_SLEEP 10 /* milliseconds */
-    // how long do we think the thread that fills MIDI buffers,
-    // if it is separate from the portaudio thread,
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/audacity-build-with-system-portaudio.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/audacity-build-with-system-portaudio.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 05325a1..0000000
--- a/gnu/packages/patches/audacity-build-with-system-portaudio.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-Downloaded from here:
-https://sourceforge.net/p/audacity/mailman/message/36106562/
-
-Modified for use on later versions of audacity.
-
->From 5f9482a191359f2c477763a36d2c865c5f186602 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it>
-Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 13:06:33 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] Fix building against the system portaudio library
-
-Building against the system portaudio results in this error:
-
-./src/AudioIO.cpp:983: undefined reference to `PaUtil_GetTime'
-audacity-AudioIO.o: In function `audacityAudioCallback(void const*, void*,
-unsigned long, PaStreamCallbackTimeInfo const*, unsigned long, void*)':
-./src/AudioIO.cpp:4630: undefined reference to `PaUtil_GetTime'
-collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
-Makefile:2349: recipe for target 'audacity' failed
-make[3]: *** [audacity] Error 1
-
-This is because PaUtil_GetTime is declared as a C symbol in pa_util.h
-but is resolved as a C++ symbol at link time.
-
-Audacity fixes this in the local tree with this change:
-https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commit/38fd97b8e26060332ab3e9e000a8882326a70ba7
-
-However this is not general enough for the portaudio debian package.
-
-Since PaUtil_GetTime() is the only function causing problems, just copy
-over the code where it's used.
----
- src/AudioIO.cpp | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/src/AudioIO.cpp b/src/AudioIO.cpp
-index 48715869c..bb4bf472c 100644
---- a/src/AudioIO.cpp
-+++ b/src/AudioIO.cpp
-@@ -480,9 +480,22 @@ time warp info and AudioIOListener and whether the playback is looped.
-    #define ROUND(x) (int) ((x)+0.5)
-    //#include <string.h>
- //   #include "../lib-src/portmidi/pm_common/portmidi.h"
--   #include "../lib-src/portaudio-v19/src/common/pa_util.h"
-    #include "NoteTrack.h"
- #endif
-+PaTime PaUtil_GetTime( void )
-+{
-+#ifdef HAVE_MACH_ABSOLUTE_TIME
-+    return mach_absolute_time() * machSecondsConversionScaler_;
-+#elif defined(HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME)
-+    struct timespec tp;
-+    clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &tp);
-+    return (PaTime)(tp.tv_sec + tp.tv_nsec * 1e-9);
-+#else
-+    struct timeval tv;
-+    gettimeofday( &tv, NULL );
-+    return (PaTime) tv.tv_usec * 1e-6 + tv.tv_sec;
-+#endif
-+}
- 
- #ifdef EXPERIMENTAL_AUTOMATED_INPUT_LEVEL_ADJUSTMENT
-    #define LOWER_BOUND 0.0
