diff --git a/multimedia/picard-plugins/README b/multimedia/picard-plugins/README
index af730d6ad5..9e0322372d 100644
--- a/multimedia/picard-plugins/README
+++ b/multimedia/picard-plugins/README
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-MusicBrainz Picard Plugins.
+MusicBrainz Picard Plugins
 
-Note: The BPM plugin is optional and requires additional
-dependencies. To enable specify BPM=yes when building and you will
-need to install both numpy3 and aubio slackbuilds.
+aubio and python3-numpy are optional autodetected dependencies for the
+BPM plugin. The BPM plugin will not be installed without them.
diff --git a/multimedia/picard-plugins/picard-plugins.SlackBuild b/multimedia/picard-plugins/picard-plugins.SlackBuild
index 92ef39d122..e3362cece2 100644
--- a/multimedia/picard-plugins/picard-plugins.SlackBuild
+++ b/multimedia/picard-plugins/picard-plugins.SlackBuild
@@ -28,9 +28,8 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=picard-plugins
-DSTNAM=picard
-VERSION=${VERSION:-9509b80}
-COMMIT=${COMMIT:-9509b800ee53a7b41ac776183edb6ffd0948896e}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-5a18c78}
+COMMIT=${COMMIT:-5a18c78d6a02396947729918b4971741d82e5c21}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
@@ -52,16 +51,6 @@ TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
 PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
 OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
 
-if [ "$ARCH" = "i586" ]; then
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
-elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
-elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
-else
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
-fi
-
 set -e
 
 rm -rf $PKG
@@ -77,17 +66,23 @@ find -L . \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
   -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
-PYTHONDIR=$(python3 -c "import sys, os; print(os.path.join('/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}', 'python%s' % sys.version[:3], 'site-packages'))")
-mkdir -p $PKG/$PYTHONDIR/$DSTNAM/plugins
-(
-  cd plugins
-  if [ "${BPM:-no}" = "no" ]; then
-    rm -rf bpm
-  fi
-  rm -rf haikuattrs
-  find . -maxdepth 2 -name '__init__.py' -printf '%h\n'|xargs mv -t $PKG/$PYTHONDIR/$DSTNAM/plugins/
-  cp -a */* $PKG/$PYTHONDIR/$DSTNAM/plugins/
-)
+PYTHONDIR=$(python3 -c 'import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_paths()["purelib"])')
+PLUGINDIR=$PKG/$PYTHONDIR/picard/plugins
+mkdir -p $PLUGINDIR
+
+# Delete haikuattrs plugin as it is only for the Haiku operating system
+rm -rf plugins/haikuattrs
+
+# Move over all directories containing __init__.py
+find plugins/ -maxdepth 2 -name '__init__.py' -printf '%h\n' | xargs mv -t $PLUGINDIR
+
+# Copy over all the remaining .py files
+cp plugins/*/*.py $PLUGINDIR
+
+# Delete bpm plugin if aubio & python3-numpy dependencies are not available
+if ! python3 -c "import aubio; import numpy"; then
+  rm -rf $PLUGINDIR/bpm
+fi
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cp -a README.md $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
diff --git a/multimedia/picard-plugins/picard-plugins.info b/multimedia/picard-plugins/picard-plugins.info
index 9a62d63791..e878bb5eab 100644
--- a/multimedia/picard-plugins/picard-plugins.info
+++ b/multimedia/picard-plugins/picard-plugins.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="picard-plugins"
-VERSION="9509b80"
+VERSION="5a18c78"
 HOMEPAGE="https://picard.musicbrainz.org/plugins/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/metabrainz/picard-plugins/archive/9509b80/picard-plugins-9509b800ee53a7b41ac776183edb6ffd0948896e.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="638b985314f8fa6a3847215a986f350f"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/metabrainz/picard-plugins/archive/5a18c78/picard-plugins-5a18c78d6a02396947729918b4971741d82e5c21.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="0dd80e02093c554c352ca88bca5cfd33"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="picard"