diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/mopidy/youtube.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/mopidy/youtube.nix
index a4aea017ea4e..33cf382ada88 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/mopidy/youtube.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/mopidy/youtube.nix
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
-{ lib
-, fetchFromGitHub
-, python3
-, mopidy
-, extraPkgs ? pkgs: []
+{
+  lib,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  python3,
+  mopidy,
+  yt-dlp,
+  extraPkgs ? pkgs: [ ],
 }:
 
 python3.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
@@ -17,22 +19,36 @@ python3.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
     hash = "sha256-iFt7r8Ljymc+grNJiOClTHkZOeo7AcYpcNc8tLMPROk=";
   };
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = with python3.pkgs; [
-    beautifulsoup4
-    cachetools
-    pykka
-    requests
-    youtube-dl
-    ytmusicapi
-  ] ++ [
-    mopidy
-  ] ++ extraPkgs pkgs;
+  propagatedBuildInputs =
+    with python3.pkgs;
+    [
+      beautifulsoup4
+      cachetools
+      pykka
+      requests
+      ytmusicapi
+    ]
+    ++ [
+      mopidy
+      yt-dlp
+    ]
+    ++ extraPkgs pkgs;
 
   nativeCheckInputs = with python3.pkgs; [
     vcrpy
     pytestCheckHook
   ];
 
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace mopidy_youtube/youtube.py \
+      --replace-fail 'youtube_dl_package = "youtube_dl"' 'youtube_dl_package = "yt_dlp"'
+    substituteInPlace tests/conftest.py \
+      --replace-fail 'import youtube_dl' 'import yt_dlp' \
+      --replace-fail 'patcher = mock.patch.object(youtube, "youtube_dl", spec=youtube_dl)' \
+      'patcher = mock.patch.object(youtube, "youtube_dl", spec=yt_dlp)' \
+      --replace-fail '"youtube_dl_package": "youtube_dl",' '"youtube_dl_package": "yt_dlp",'
+  '';
+
   disabledTests = [
     # Test requires a YouTube API key
     "test_get_default_config"
@@ -45,9 +61,7 @@ python3.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
     "tests/test_youtube.py"
   ];
 
-  pythonImportsCheck = [
-    "mopidy_youtube"
-  ];
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "mopidy_youtube" ];
 
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Mopidy extension for playing music from YouTube";