diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 989c673..df3edce 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
   * New upstream version.
   * Verify signature of upstream tarball.
+  * Switch from libmad to libmpg123 to avoid potential GPL licensing issues
+    of libsdl2-mixer users.
 
  -- Felix Geyer <fgeyer@debian.org>  Sun, 03 Feb 2019 12:11:20 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 2849dc1..6de8066 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11~),
                libflac-dev (>= 1.2.1),
                libfluidsynth-dev (>= 1.1.1),
-               libmad0-dev (>= 0.15.1b),
                libmodplug-dev (>= 1:0.8.8),
+               libmpg123-dev,
                libogg-dev (>= 1.2.0),
                libsdl2-dev (>= 2.0.7),
                libtool,
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 8adad19..d1a60ba 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -44,10 +44,9 @@
 confflags += --enable-music-mod-modplug
 confflags += --disable-music-mod-mikmod
 confflags += --disable-music-mod-modplug-shared
-# using libmad instead of libsmpeg for mp3 (it's much more popular)
 confflags += --enable-music-mp3
-confflags += --disable-music-mp3-smpeg
-confflags += --enable-music-mp3-mad-gpl
+confflags += --enable-music-mp3-mpg123
+confflags += --disable-music-mp3-mpg123-shared
 # ogg
 confflags += --enable-music-ogg
 confflags += --disable-music-ogg-shared