diff --git a/README b/README
index e3ca82148..7e80041e9 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Quickstart on Ubuntu
 --------------------
 
     $ sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libtag1c2a libtag1-dev liblastfm-dev libqt4-dev \
-                           libqt4-sql-sqlite libvorbis-dev libmad0-dev libflac++-dev libasound2-dev \
-                           libboost-dev zlib1g-dev libgnutls-dev pkg-config
+                           libqt4-sql-sqlite libboost-dev zlib1g-dev libgnutls-dev pkg-config
 
 
 Gloox 1.0 (XMPP library)
@@ -57,7 +56,7 @@ Quickstart on OS X
 
  Install homebrew
     $ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://gist.github.com/raw/323731/install_homebrew.rb)"
-    $ brew install cmake qt qjson gloox libmad libvorbis flac taglib boost liblastfm
+    $ brew install cmake qt qjson gloox taglib boost liblastfm
 
  Install libEchnoest & CLucene as per the above instructions.
 
@@ -90,16 +89,11 @@ Dependencies
   TagLib 1.6.2 http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html
   Boost 1.3x http://www.boost.org/
   CLucene 0.9.23 (0.9.21 will fail) http://clucene.sourceforge.net/download.shtml
-  libmad 0.15.1b http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/
-  libvorbis 1.2.3 http://xiph.org/vorbis/
-  libogg 1.1.4 http://xiph.org/ogg/
-  libflac++ 1.2.0 http://flac.sourceforge.net/
   liblastfm 0.3.3 http://github.com/mxcl/liblastfm/
   libechonest 1.1.1 http://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/libs/libechonest/
 
  Third party libraries that we ship with our source:
 
-  RtAudio 4.0.7 http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/rtaudio/
   MiniUPnP http://miniupnp.free.fr/