diff --git a/m4/Makefile.am b/m4/Makefile.am
index 346e713..b747dfd 100644
--- a/m4/Makefile.am
+++ b/m4/Makefile.am
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.9 foreign
 
-EXTRA_DIST =	shout.m4 xiph_compiler.m4 xiph_xml2.m4
+EXTRA_DIST =	xiph_compiler.m4 xiph_xml2.m4
 
 CLEANFILES =	core *.core *~ .*~
diff --git a/m4/shout.m4 b/m4/shout.m4
deleted file mode 100644
index c4f6120..0000000
--- a/m4/shout.m4
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,88 +0,0 @@
-dnl XIPH_PATH_SHOUT
-dnl Jack Moffitt <jack@icecast.org> 08-06-2001
-dnl Rewritten for libshout 2
-dnl Brendan Cully <brendan@xiph.org> 20030612
-dnl 
-dnl $Id: shout.m4 7180 2004-07-20 02:50:54Z brendan $
-
-# XIPH_PATH_SHOUT([ACTION-IF-FOUND [, ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND]])
-# Test for libshout, and define SHOUT_CPPFLAGS SHOUT_CFLAGS SHOUT_LIBS, and
-# SHOUT_THREADSAFE
-AC_DEFUN([XIPH_PATH_SHOUT],
-[dnl
-xt_have_shout="no"
-SHOUT_THREADSAFE="no"
-SHOUT_CPPFLAGS=""
-SHOUT_CFLAGS=""
-SHOUT_LIBS=""
-
-# NB: PKG_CHECK_MODULES exits if pkg-config is unavailable on the target
-# system, so we can't use it.
-
-# seed pkg-config with the default libshout location
-PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${PKG_CONFIG_PATH:-/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig}
-export PKG_CONFIG_PATH
-
-# Step 1: Use pkg-config if available
-AC_PATH_PROG([PKGCONFIG], [pkg-config], [no])
-if test "$PKGCONFIG" != "no" && `$PKGCONFIG --exists shout`
-then
-  SHOUT_CFLAGS=`$PKGCONFIG --variable=cflags_only shout`
-  SHOUT_CPPFLAGS=`$PKGCONFIG --variable=cppflags shout`
-  SHOUT_LIBS=`$PKGCONFIG --libs shout`
-  xt_have_shout="maybe"
-else
-  if test "$PKGCONFIG" != "no"
-  then
-    AC_MSG_NOTICE([$PKGCONFIG couldn't find libshout. Try adjusting PKG_CONFIG_PATH.])
-  fi
-  # pkg-config unavailable, try shout-config
-  AC_PATH_PROG([SHOUTCONFIG], [shout-config], [no])
-  if test "$SHOUTCONFIG" != "no" && test `$SHOUTCONFIG --package` = "libshout"
-  then
-    SHOUT_CPPFLAGS=`$SHOUTCONFIG --cppflags`
-    SHOUT_CFLAGS=`$SHOUTCONFIG --cflags-only`
-    SHOUT_LIBS=`$SHOUTCONFIG --libs`
-    xt_have_shout="maybe"
-  fi
-fi
-
-dnl XXX - Up until and including speex-1.2beta1, '-lm' has been missing from
-dnl       --libs in speex.pc, even though Speex (still) depends on it. This is
-dnl       a problem for Solaris' linker and at least some static archs using
-dnl       GNU ld. '-lm' now comes from the libshout's libvorbis dependency and
-dnl       is in the wrong place, if libshout was built with Speex support. Just
-dnl       move libm to the end for now.
-xt_shout_TEMP="`echo $SHOUT_LIBS | sed -e 's,-lm,,g'`"
-SHOUT_LIBS="$xt_shout_TEMP -lm"
-
-# Now try actually using libshout
-if test "$xt_have_shout" != "no"
-then
-  ac_save_CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS"
-  ac_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
-  ac_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
-  CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $SHOUT_CPPFLAGS"
-  CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $SHOUT_CFLAGS"
-  LIBS="$SHOUT_LIBS $LIBS"
-  AC_CHECK_HEADERS([shout/shout.h], [
-    AC_CHECK_FUNC([shout_new], [
-      ifelse([$1], , :, [$1])
-      xt_have_shout="yes"
-    ])
-    AC_EGREP_CPP([yes], [#include <shout/shout.h>
-#if SHOUT_THREADSAFE
-yes
-#endif
-], [SHOUT_THREADSAFE="yes"])
-  ])
-  CPPFLAGS="$ac_save_CPPFLAGS"
-  CFLAGS="$ac_save_CFLAGS"
-  LIBS="$ac_save_LIBS"
-fi
-
-if test "$xt_have_shout" != "yes"
-then
-  ifelse([$2], , :, [$2])
-fi
-])dnl XIPH_PATH_SHOUT