diff --git a/python-librosa.changes b/python-librosa.changes
index f251d0d..4ae25e9 100644
--- a/python-librosa.changes
+++ b/python-librosa.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jan 17 15:55:46 UTC 2025 - Bjørn Lie <bjorn.lie@gmail.com>
+
+- Switch ffmpeg-5 with ffmpeg-4 BuildRequires: python-librosa is
+  the last package depending on ffmepeg-5, and it's only used for
+  testsuite, so using ffmepeg-4 is fine, and will allow us to drop
+  ffmpeg-5 from distro.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Oct  2 20:59:35 UTC 2024 - Matej Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu>
 
diff --git a/python-librosa.spec b/python-librosa.spec
index 121d718..be39354 100644
--- a/python-librosa.spec
+++ b/python-librosa.spec
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest-xdist}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module resampy >= 0.2.2}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module samplerate}
-BuildRequires:  ffmpeg-5
+BuildRequires:  ffmpeg-4
 # /SECTION
 %python_subpackages