diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 87ac5220d..1dcc21dc2 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -220,12 +220,6 @@ IF( UNIX AND NOT APPLE AND QT_QTDBUS_FOUND )
     SET( WITH_GNOMESHORTCUTHANDLER ON )
 ENDIF( UNIX AND NOT APPLE AND QT_QTDBUS_FOUND  )
 
-macro_optional_find_package(Phonon 4.5.0)
-macro_log_feature(Phonon_FOUND "Phonon" "The Phonon multimedia library" "http://phonon.kde.org" TRUE "" "")
-if(Phonon_FOUND)
-    message(STATUS "Phonon found; ensure that phonon-vlc is at least 0.4")
-endif()
-
 macro_optional_find_package(Echonest 2.1.0)
 macro_log_feature(ECHONEST_FOUND "Echonest" "Qt library for communicating with The Echo Nest" "http://projects.kde.org/libechonest" TRUE "" "libechonest 2.1.0 is needed for dynamic playlists and the infosystem")
 
@@ -312,10 +306,17 @@ if (WITH_KDE4)
     macro_optional_find_package(KDE4)
     macro_optional_find_package(KDE4Installed)
 endif(WITH_KDE4)
-# this was used before we had FindKDE4Installed, just leaving it here to keep the flags
-# for future kde integration
 macro_log_feature(KDE4_FOUND "KDE4" "Provides support for configuring Telepathy Accounts from inside Tomahawk" "https://www.kde.org" FALSE "" "")
 
+if(NOT Phonon_FOUND)
+  macro_optional_find_package(Phonon 4.5.0)
+endif()
+macro_log_feature(Phonon_FOUND "Phonon" "The Phonon multimedia library" "http://phonon.kde.org" TRUE "" "")
+
+if(Phonon_FOUND)
+    message(STATUS "Phonon found; ensure that phonon-vlc is at least 0.4")
+endif()
+
 IF( KDE4_FOUND )
     IF( CMAKE_C_FLAGS )
         # KDE4 adds and removes some compiler flags that we don't like
diff --git a/CMakeModules/FindPhonon.cmake b/CMakeModules/FindPhonon.cmake
index b2b38d21f..ff7fd8e49 100644
--- a/CMakeModules/FindPhonon.cmake
+++ b/CMakeModules/FindPhonon.cmake
@@ -18,9 +18,7 @@ if( TOMAHAWK_QT5 )
     set(Phonon_FOUND ${Phonon4Qt5_FOUND})
     set(Phonon_DIR ${Phonon4Qt5_DIR})
 else()
-    find_package(Phonon4)
-    set(Phonon_FOUND ${PHONON_FOUND})
-    set(Phonon_DIR ${PHONON_DIR})
+    find_package(Phonon NO_MODULE)
 endif()
 
 find_package_handle_standard_args(Phonon DEFAULT_MSG  Phonon_DIR )
diff --git a/CMakeModules/FindPhonon4.cmake b/CMakeModules/FindPhonon4.cmake
deleted file mode 100644
index cd9e5cb44..000000000
--- a/CMakeModules/FindPhonon4.cmake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-# Find libphonon
-# Once done this will define
-#
-#  PHONON_FOUND    - system has Phonon Library
-#  PHONON_INCLUDES - the Phonon include directory
-#  PHONON_LIBS     - link these to use Phonon
-#  PHONON_VERSION  - the version of the Phonon Library
-
-# Copyright (c) 2008, Matthias Kretz <kretz@kde.org>
-#
-# Redistribution and use is allowed according to the terms of the BSD license.
-# For details see the accompanying COPYING-CMAKE-SCRIPTS file.
-
-macro(_phonon_find_version)
-   set(_phonon_namespace_header_file "${PHONON_INCLUDE_DIR}/phonon/phononnamespace.h")
-   if (APPLE AND EXISTS "${PHONON_INCLUDE_DIR}/Headers/phononnamespace.h")
-      set(_phonon_namespace_header_file "${PHONON_INCLUDE_DIR}/Headers/phononnamespace.h")
-   endif (APPLE AND EXISTS "${PHONON_INCLUDE_DIR}/Headers/phononnamespace.h")
-   file(READ ${_phonon_namespace_header_file} _phonon_header LIMIT 5000 OFFSET 1000)
-   string(REGEX MATCH "define PHONON_VERSION_STR \"(4\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9a-z]+)\"" _phonon_version_match "${_phonon_header}")
-   set(PHONON_VERSION "${CMAKE_MATCH_1}")
-endmacro(_phonon_find_version)
-
-# the dirs listed with HINTS are searched before the default sets of dirs
-find_library(PHONON_LIBRARY NAMES phonon HINTS ${KDE4_LIB_INSTALL_DIR} ${QT_LIBRARY_DIR})
-find_path(PHONON_INCLUDE_DIR NAMES phonon/phonon_export.h HINTS ${KDE4_INCLUDE_INSTALL_DIR} ${QT_INCLUDE_DIR} ${INCLUDE_INSTALL_DIR} ${QT_LIBRARY_DIR})
-
-if(PHONON_INCLUDE_DIR AND PHONON_LIBRARY)
-   set(PHONON_LIBS ${phonon_LIB_DEPENDS} ${PHONON_LIBRARY})
-   set(PHONON_INCLUDES ${PHONON_INCLUDE_DIR}/KDE ${PHONON_INCLUDE_DIR})
-   _phonon_find_version()
-endif(PHONON_INCLUDE_DIR AND PHONON_LIBRARY)
-
-include(FindPackageHandleStandardArgs)
-find_package_handle_standard_args(Phonon  DEFAULT_MSG  PHONON_INCLUDE_DIR PHONON_LIBRARY)
-
-mark_as_advanced(PHONON_INCLUDE_DIR PHONON_LIBRARY)