diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/audio/wavesurfer/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/audio/wavesurfer/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 99cdc9ade21..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/audio/wavesurfer/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, snack, tcl, tk, makeWrapper }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "wavesurfer";
-  version = "1.8.5";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/wavesurfer-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1yx9s1j47cq0v40cwq2gn7bdizpw46l95ba4zl9z4gg31mfvm807";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
-  buildInputs = [ snack tcl tk ];
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    mkdir -p $out/{bin,nix-support,share/wavesurfer/}
-    mv doc $out/share/wavesurfer
-    mv * $out/nix-support
-    ln -s $out/{nix-support,bin}/wavesurfer.tcl
-    wrapProgram "$out/nix-support/wavesurfer.tcl"  \
-                 --set TCLLIBPATH "${snack}/lib" \
-                 --prefix PATH : "${lib.makeBinPath [ tcl tk ]}"
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Tool for recording, playing, editing, viewing and labeling of audio";
-    homepage = "https://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/";
-    license = lib.licenses.bsd0;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/snack/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/snack/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 1c876cf3636..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/snack/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-# alsa-lib vorbis-tools python2 can be made optional
-
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, python2, tcl, tk, vorbis-tools, pkg-config, xlibsWrapper }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "snack";
-  version = "2.2.10";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://www.speech.kth.se/snack/dist/${pname}${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "07p89jv9qnjqkszws9sssq93ayvwpdnkcxrvyicbm4mb8x2pdzjb";
-  };
-
-  configureFlags = [ "--with-tcl=${tcl}/lib" "--with-tk=${tk}/lib" ];
-
-  postUnpack = ''sourceRoot="$sourceRoot/unix"'';
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
-  buildInputs = [ python2 tcl tk vorbis-tools xlibsWrapper ];
-
-  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
-
-  postInstall = "aoeu";
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    mkdir -p $out
-    make install DESTDIR="$out"
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "The Snack Sound Toolkit (Tcl)";
-    homepage = "https://www.speech.kth.se/snack/";
-    license = lib.licenses.gpl2;
-    broken = true;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index db330743e50..36d8ad17841 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -1167,6 +1167,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   slurm-llnl-full = slurm-full; # renamed July 2017
   smbclient = throw "'smbclient' has been renamed to/replaced by 'samba'"; # Converted to throw 2022-02-22
   smugline = throw "smugline has been removed from nixpkgs, as it's unmaintained and depends on deprecated libraries"; # Added 2020-11-04
+  snack = throw "snack has been removed: broken for 5+ years"; # Added 2022-04-21
   solr_8 = solr; # Added 2021-01-30
 
   # Added 2020-02-10
@@ -1334,6 +1335,7 @@ mapAliases ({
 
   ### W ###
 
+  wavesurfer = throw "wavesurfer has been removed: depended on snack which has been removed"; # Added 2022-04-21
   way-cooler = throw "way-cooler is abandoned by its author: https://way-cooler.org/blog/2020/01/09/way-cooler-post-mortem.html"; # Added 2020-01-13
   webbrowser = throw "webbrowser was removed because it's unmaintained upstream and was marked as broken in nixpkgs for over a year"; # Added 2022-03-21
   webkit = throw "'webkit' has been renamed to/replaced by 'webkitgtk'"; # Converted to throw 2022-02-22
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 434d94509ab..c8a1bb95e9e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -20460,10 +20460,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   smpeg2 = callPackage ../development/libraries/smpeg2 { };
 
-  snack = callPackage ../development/libraries/snack {
-        # optional
-  };
-
   snappy = callPackage ../development/libraries/snappy { };
 
   snow = callPackage ../tools/security/snow { };
@@ -26232,8 +26228,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   w_scan = callPackage ../applications/video/w_scan { };
 
-  wavesurfer = callPackage ../applications/misc/audio/wavesurfer { };
-
   wavrsocvt = callPackage ../applications/misc/audio/wavrsocvt { };
 
   welle-io = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/radio/welle-io { };