diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index d4fd67021..63c2ce7a0 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.6)
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.6)
 project(liblastfm)
 
-set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/modules)
-
 # general settings
 set(LASTFM_SOVERSION 1)
 set(LASTFM_VERSION "0x00010100")
@@ -21,43 +19,44 @@ option(BUILD_TESTS "Build liblastfm tests" ON)
 # installation dirs
 include(GNUInstallDirs)
 include(FeatureSummary)
-
-#cmake module path
-set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH}" "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/Modules")
+include(FindPkgConfig)
 
 # setup qt stuff
 set(CMAKE_AUTOMOC ON)
 
-option(BUILD_WITH_QT4 "Build liblastfm with Qt4" OFF)
+find_package(Qt5 CONFIG REQUIRED COMPONENTS Core Network Xml)
 
-if(NOT BUILD_WITH_QT4)
-    find_package(Qt5 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Core Network Xml CONFIG)
+if(BUILD_FINGERPRINT)
+    find_package(Qt5Sql CONFIG REQUIRED)
 
-    if(BUILD_FINGERPRINT)
-        find_package(Qt5Sql REQUIRED CONFIG)
-    endif()
+    pkg_check_modules(LibSamplerate REQUIRED IMPORTED_TARGET samplerate)
+    add_feature_info(LibSamplerate LibSamplerate_FOUND "Required for lastfm-fingerprint library")
 
-    set(LASTFM_LIB_VERSION_SUFFIX 5)
-    if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
-        find_package(Qt5DBus REQUIRED CONFIG)
-    endif()
+    pkg_check_modules(FFTW3F REQUIRED IMPORTED_TARGET fftw3f>=3.0)
+    add_feature_info(FFTW3F FFTW3F_FOUND "Required for lastfm-fingerprint library")
+endif()
 
-#     macro(qt_wrap_ui)
-#         qt5_wrap_ui(${ARGN})
-#     endmacro()
-#
-#     macro(qt_add_resources)
-#         qt5_add_resources(${ARGN})
-#     endmacro()
-#
-#     find_package(Qt5LinguistTools REQUIRED)
-#     macro(qt_add_translation)
-#         qt5_add_translation(${ARGN})
-#     endmacro()
-else()
-    find_package(Qt4 COMPONENTS QtCore QtNetwork QtXml REQUIRED)
+if(BUILD_TESTS)
+    find_package(Qt5Test CONFIG REQUIRED)
+endif()
+
+set(LASTFM_LIB_VERSION_SUFFIX 5)
+if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
+    find_package(Qt5DBus CONFIG REQUIRED)
 endif()
 
+# macro(qt_wrap_ui)
+#     qt5_wrap_ui(${ARGN})
+# endmacro()
+#
+# macro(qt_add_resources)
+#     qt5_add_resources(${ARGN})
+# endmacro()
+#
+# find_package(Qt5LinguistTools REQUIRED)
+# macro(qt_add_translation)
+#     qt5_add_translation(${ARGN})
+# endmacro()
 
 if(CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCXX)
     add_definitions("-fno-operator-names -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -fvisibility=hidden")
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 62a1ee961..cc2f99f1f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Channel: #last.desktop
 
 liblastfm requires:
 
-* Qt 4.8 http://qt.digia.com/
+* Qt 5.0 https://www.qt.io/
 * FFTW http://www.fftw.org/
 * libsamplerate http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/
 
@@ -27,23 +27,14 @@ Additionally, to build it you will need:
 
 ## Mac OS X
 
-We recommend that you use Homebrew to install dependancies http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
+We recommend that you use Homebrew to install dependancies https://brew.sh/
 
-In order to install QT 5 run:
+In order to install Qt 5 run:
 ```
 brew install qt
 ```
 
-In order to install QT 4.8 run:
-
-```
-brew install cartr/qt4/qt@4
-brew install cartr/qt4/qt-webkit@2.3
-```
-Don't forget to turn on the BUILD_WITH_QT4 option in CMakeLists.txt
-
-
-And for other dependencies:
+For other dependencies:
 ```
 brew install cmake
 brew install fftw
@@ -52,9 +43,9 @@ brew install libsamplerate
 
 ## Linux/*NIX
 
-Do something like this:
+On Debian-based systems, do something like this:
 
-    sudo apt-get install qt4-qmake pkg-config g++ libqt4-dev cmake libfftw-dev libsamplerate0-dev
+    sudo apt-get install qt5-qmake pkg-config g++ qtbase5-dev cmake libfftw-dev libsamplerate0-dev
 
 Please note, we have only tested on Linux, but we think it'll work on all
 varieties of UNIX. If it doesn't, report the bug to eartle on GitHub.
diff --git a/cmake/Modules/FindDBus.cmake b/cmake/Modules/FindDBus.cmake
deleted file mode 100644
index f227cc297..000000000
--- a/cmake/Modules/FindDBus.cmake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-# - Try to find the low-level D-Bus library
-# Once done this will define
-#
-#  DBUS_FOUND - system has D-Bus
-#  DBUS_INCLUDE_DIR - the D-Bus include directory
-#  DBUS_ARCH_INCLUDE_DIR - the D-Bus architecture-specific include directory
-#  DBUS_LIBRARIES - the libraries needed to use D-Bus
-
-# Copyright (c) 2008, Kevin Kofler, <kevin.kofler@chello.at>
-# modeled after FindLibArt.cmake:
-# Copyright (c) 2006, Alexander Neundorf, <neundorf@kde.org>
-#
-# Redistribution and use is allowed according to the terms of the BSD license.
-# For details see the accompanying COPYING-CMAKE-SCRIPTS file.
-
-if (DBUS_INCLUDE_DIR AND DBUS_ARCH_INCLUDE_DIR AND DBUS_LIBRARIES)
-
-  # in cache already
-  SET(DBUS_FOUND TRUE)
-
-else (DBUS_INCLUDE_DIR AND DBUS_ARCH_INCLUDE_DIR AND DBUS_LIBRARIES)
-
-  IF (NOT WIN32)
-    FIND_PACKAGE(PkgConfig)
-    IF (PKG_CONFIG_FOUND)
-      # use pkg-config to get the directories and then use these values
-      # in the FIND_PATH() and FIND_LIBRARY() calls
-      pkg_check_modules(_DBUS_PC QUIET dbus-1)
-    ENDIF (PKG_CONFIG_FOUND)
-  ENDIF (NOT WIN32)
-
-  FIND_PATH(DBUS_INCLUDE_DIR dbus/dbus.h
-    ${_DBUS_PC_INCLUDE_DIRS}
-    /usr/include
-    /usr/include/dbus-1.0
-    /usr/local/include
-  )
-
-  FIND_PATH(DBUS_ARCH_INCLUDE_DIR dbus/dbus-arch-deps.h
-    ${_DBUS_PC_INCLUDE_DIRS}
-    /usr/lib${LIB_SUFFIX}/include
-    /usr/lib${LIB_SUFFIX}/dbus-1.0/include
-    /usr/lib64/include
-    /usr/lib64/dbus-1.0/include
-    /usr/lib/include
-    /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include
-  )
-
-  FIND_LIBRARY(DBUS_LIBRARIES NAMES dbus-1 dbus
-    PATHS
-     ${_DBUS_PC_LIBDIR}
-  )
-
-
-  if (DBUS_INCLUDE_DIR AND DBUS_ARCH_INCLUDE_DIR AND DBUS_LIBRARIES)
-     set(DBUS_FOUND TRUE)
-  endif (DBUS_INCLUDE_DIR AND DBUS_ARCH_INCLUDE_DIR AND DBUS_LIBRARIES)
-
-
-  if (DBUS_FOUND)
-     if (NOT DBus_FIND_QUIETLY)
-        message(STATUS "Found D-Bus: ${DBUS_LIBRARIES}")
-     endif (NOT DBus_FIND_QUIETLY)
-  else (DBUS_FOUND)
-     if (DBus_FIND_REQUIRED)
-        message(FATAL_ERROR "Could NOT find D-Bus")
-     endif (DBus_FIND_REQUIRED)
-  endif (DBUS_FOUND)
-
-  MARK_AS_ADVANCED(DBUS_INCLUDE_DIR DBUS_ARCH_INCLUDE_DIR DBUS_LIBRARIES)
-
-endif (DBUS_INCLUDE_DIR AND DBUS_ARCH_INCLUDE_DIR AND DBUS_LIBRARIES)
diff --git a/cmake/Modules/FindLibFFTW3.cmake b/cmake/Modules/FindLibFFTW3.cmake
deleted file mode 100644
index 97187ee3f..000000000
--- a/cmake/Modules/FindLibFFTW3.cmake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-# This file is copyrighted under the BSD-license for buildsystem files of KDE
-# copyright 2010, Patrick von Reth <patrick.vonreth@gmail.com>
-#
-#
-# - Try to find the LIBFFTW3 library
-# Once done this will define
-#
-#  LIBFFTW3_FOUND            Set to TRUE if LIBFFTW3 librarys and include directory is found
-#  LIBFFTW3_INCLUDE_DIR      The libfftw3 include directory
-#  LIBFFTW3_LIBRARY          The libfftw3 librarys
-
-find_package(PkgConfig)
-pkg_check_modules(PC_FFTW3F QUIET fftw)
-set(FFTW3F_DEFINITIONS ${PC_FFTW3F_CFLAGS_OTHER})
-
-if(NOT LIBFFTW3_PRECISION)
-  message(STATUS "Searching for LIBFFTW3, using default precision float")
-  set(LIBFFTW3_PRECISION FLOAT)
-endif(NOT LIBFFTW3_PRECISION)
-
-find_path(LIBFFTW3_INCLUDE_DIR fftw3.h
-			HINTS ${PC_FFTW3F_INCLUDEDIR} ${PC_FFTW3F_INCLUDE_DIRS})
-
-if(LIBFFTW3_PRECISION STREQUAL FLOAT)
-  set(LIBFFTW3_PRECISION_SUFFIX f)
-endif(LIBFFTW3_PRECISION STREQUAL FLOAT)
-
-if(LIBFFTW3_PRECISION STREQUAL DOUBLE)
-  set(LIBFFTW3_PRECISION_SUFFIX "")
-endif(LIBFFTW3_PRECISION STREQUAL DOUBLE)
-
-if(LIBFFTW3_PRECISION STREQUAL LDOUBLE)
-  set(LIBFFTW3_PRECISION_SUFFIX l)
-endif(LIBFFTW3_PRECISION STREQUAL LDOUBLE)
-
-find_library(LIBFFTW3_LIBRARY NAMES fftw3${LIBFFTW3_PRECISION_SUFFIX} libfftw3${LIBFFTW3_PRECISION_SUFFIX}-3 fftw3${LIBFFTW3_PRECISION_SUFFIX}-3
-				HINTS ${PC_FFTW3F_LIBDIR} ${PC_FFTW3F_LIBRARY_DIRS})
-
-if(FIND_LIBFFTW3_VERBOSE)
-  message(STATUS 
-  "LIBFFTW3_PRECISION ${LIBFFTW3_PRECISION}, searched for fftw3${LIBFFTW3_PRECISION_SUFFIX} libfftw3${LIBFFTW3_PRECISION_SUFFIX}-3 fftw3${LIBFFTW3_PRECISION_SUFFIX}-3
-    and found ${LIBFFTW3_LIBRARY}"
-  )
-endif(FIND_LIBFFTW3_VERBOSE)
-
-if(LIBFFTW3_LIBRARY AND LIBFFTW3_INCLUDE_DIR)
-    set(LIBFFTW3_FOUND TRUE)
-    message(STATUS "Found libfftw3 ${LIBFFTW3_LIBRARY}")
-else(LIBFFTW3_LIBRARY AND LIBFFTW3_PLUGIN_PATH)
-    message(STATUS "Could not find libfftw3, get it http://www.fftw.org/")
-endif(LIBFFTW3_LIBRARY AND LIBFFTW3_INCLUDE_DIR)
diff --git a/cmake/Modules/FindLibSamplerate.cmake b/cmake/Modules/FindLibSamplerate.cmake
deleted file mode 100644
index 28063233c..000000000
--- a/cmake/Modules/FindLibSamplerate.cmake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-# This file is copyrighted under the BSD-license for buildsystem files of KDE
-# copyright 2010, Patrick von Reth <patrick.vonreth@gmail.com>
-#
-#
-# - Try to find the libsamplerate library
-# Once done this will define
-#
-#  LIBSAMPLERATE_FOUND          Set to TRUE if libsamplerate librarys and include directory is found
-#  LIBSAMPLERATE_LIBRARY        The libsamplerate librarys
-#  LIBSAMPLERATE_INCLUDE_DIR    The libsamplerate include directory
-
-find_package(PkgConfig)
-pkg_check_modules(PC_LIBSAMPLERATE QUIET libsamplerate)
-set(LIBSAMPLERATE_DEFINITIONS ${PC_LIBSAMPLERATE_CFLAGS_OTHER})
-
-find_library(LIBSAMPLERATE_LIBRARY NAMES samplerate libsamplerate-0 samplerate-0
-				HINTS ${PC_LIBSAMPLERATE_LIBDIR} ${PC_LIBSAMPLERATE_LIBRARY_DIRS})
-
-find_path(LIBSAMPLERATE_INCLUDE_DIR samplerate.h
-			HINTS ${PC_LIBSAMPLERATE_INCLUDEDIR} ${PC_LIBSAMPLERATE_INCLUDE_DIRS})
-
-if(LIBSAMPLERATE_LIBRARY AND LIBSAMPLERATE_INCLUDE_DIR)
-    set(LIBSAMPLERATE_FOUND TRUE)
-    message(STATUS "Found libsamplerate ${LIBSAMPLERATE_LIBRARY}")
-else(LIBSAMPLERATE_LIBRARY AND LIBSAMPLERATE_PLUGIN_PATH)
-    message(STATUS "Could not find libsamplerate, get it http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/")
-endif(LIBSAMPLERATE_LIBRARY AND LIBSAMPLERATE_INCLUDE_DIR)
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 22ce506cd..98b1e0e97 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 configure_file(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/global.h.in ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/global.h)
 
-
-add_definitions(${QT_DEFINITIONS})
-include_directories(${QT_INCLUDES} ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
+include_directories(${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
 
 set(liblastfm_SOURCES
         ws.cpp
@@ -66,20 +64,9 @@ endif()
 
 add_library(${LASTFM_LIB_TARGET_NAME} SHARED ${liblastfm_SOURCES})
 
-if(Qt5Core_DIR)
-    target_link_libraries(${LASTFM_LIB_TARGET_NAME} Qt5::Network Qt5::Xml)
-    if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
-        target_link_libraries(${LASTFM_LIB_TARGET_NAME} Qt5::DBus)
-    endif()
-else()
-    target_link_libraries(${LASTFM_LIB_TARGET_NAME}
-        ${QT_QTCORE_LIBRARY}
-        ${QT_QTNETWORK_LIBRARY}
-        ${QT_QTXML_LIBRARY}
-    )
-    if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
-        target_link_libraries(${LASTFM_LIB_TARGET_NAME} ${QT_QTDBUS_LIBRARY})
-    endif()
+target_link_libraries(${LASTFM_LIB_TARGET_NAME} Qt5::Network Qt5::Xml)
+if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
+    target_link_libraries(${LASTFM_LIB_TARGET_NAME} Qt5::DBus)
 endif()
 
 if(WIN32 AND NOT MINGW)
diff --git a/src/Url.cpp b/src/Url.cpp
index af27ecd75..06f84291d 100644
--- a/src/Url.cpp
+++ b/src/Url.cpp
@@ -20,25 +20,19 @@
 
 #include "Url.h"
 
-#if QT_VERSION >= QT_VERSION_CHECK( 5, 0, 0 )
 #include <QUrlQuery>
-#endif
 
 class lastfm::UrlPrivate
 {
     public:
         UrlPrivate( const QUrl& url );
         QUrl url;
-#if QT_VERSION >= QT_VERSION_CHECK( 5, 0, 0 )
         QUrlQuery query;
-#endif
 };
 
 lastfm::UrlPrivate::UrlPrivate( const QUrl& u )
     : url( u )
-#if QT_VERSION >= QT_VERSION_CHECK( 5, 0, 0 )
     , query( u.query() )
-#endif
 {
 }
 
@@ -55,12 +49,8 @@ lastfm::Url::~Url()
 void
 lastfm::Url::addQueryItem( const QString& key, const QString& value )
 {
-#if QT_VERSION >= QT_VERSION_CHECK( 5, 0, 0 )
     d->query.addQueryItem( key, value );
     d->url.setQuery( d->query );
-#else
-    d->url.addQueryItem( key, value );
-#endif
 }
 
 QUrl
@@ -73,9 +63,7 @@ lastfm::Url&
 lastfm::Url::operator=( const lastfm::Url& that )
 {
     d->url = that.d->url;
-#if QT_VERSION >= QT_VERSION_CHECK( 5, 0, 0 )
     d->query = that.d->query;
-#endif
     return *this;
 }
 
diff --git a/src/UrlBuilder.cpp b/src/UrlBuilder.cpp
index a542a02cb..df299a344 100644
--- a/src/UrlBuilder.cpp
+++ b/src/UrlBuilder.cpp
@@ -62,11 +62,7 @@ lastfm::UrlBuilder::url() const
     QUrl url;
     url.setScheme( "http" );
     url.setHost( host() );
-#if QT_VERSION >= QT_VERSION_CHECK( 5, 0, 0 )
     url.setPath( d->path );
-#else
-    url.setEncodedPath( d->path );
-#endif
     return url;
 }
 
diff --git a/src/fingerprint/CMakeLists.txt b/src/fingerprint/CMakeLists.txt
index 4a74e0dc0..c87f64899 100644
--- a/src/fingerprint/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/fingerprint/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-
-#find_package(Qt4 COMPONENTS QtCore QtSql REQUIRED)
-#FIXME: find modules are horrible, port them to find_package_handle_standard_args
-find_package(LibSamplerate REQUIRED)
-find_package(LibFFTW3 REQUIRED)
-
-include_directories(${LIBFFTW3_INCLUDE_DIR})
-include_directories(${LIBSAMPLERATE_INCLUDE_DIR})
-include_directories(${QT_INCLUDES})
 include_directories(${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/..)
 include_directories(${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/..)
 
@@ -34,15 +25,11 @@ set_target_properties(${FINGERPRINT_LIB_TARGET_NAME} PROPERTIES
 
 target_link_libraries(${FINGERPRINT_LIB_TARGET_NAME}
     ${LASTFM_LIB_TARGET_NAME}
-    ${LIBSAMPLERATE_LIBRARY}
-    ${LIBFFTW3_LIBRARY}
+    PkgConfig::LibSamplerate
+    PkgConfig::FFTW3F
 )
 
-if(Qt5Core_DIR)
-    target_link_libraries(${FINGERPRINT_LIB_TARGET_NAME} Qt5::Network Qt5::Sql Qt5::Xml)
-else()
-    target_link_libraries(${FINGERPRINT_LIB_TARGET_NAME} ${QT_QTCORE_LIBRARY} ${QT_QTSQL_LIBRARY})
-endif()
+target_link_libraries(${FINGERPRINT_LIB_TARGET_NAME} Qt5::Network Qt5::Sql Qt5::Xml)
 
 install(TARGETS ${FINGERPRINT_LIB_TARGET_NAME}
     RUNTIME DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR}
diff --git a/src/fingerprint/Fingerprint.cpp b/src/fingerprint/Fingerprint.cpp
index 55f77a458..a105e4375 100644
--- a/src/fingerprint/Fingerprint.cpp
+++ b/src/fingerprint/Fingerprint.cpp
@@ -31,9 +31,7 @@
 #include <QNetworkRequest>
 #include <QNetworkReply>
 #include <QStringList>
-#if QT_VERSION >= QT_VERSION_CHECK( 5, 0, 0 )
-    #include <QUrlQuery>
-#endif
+#include <QUrlQuery>
 #include <fstream>
 
 #include "User.h"
diff --git a/tests/lastfm_add_test.cmake b/tests/lastfm_add_test.cmake
index 2f0664d97..46e49deaa 100644
--- a/tests/lastfm_add_test.cmake
+++ b/tests/lastfm_add_test.cmake
@@ -1,20 +1,14 @@
 macro(lastfm_add_test test_class)
-    include_directories(${QT_INCLUDES} "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src" ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
+    include_directories("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src" ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
 
     set(LASTFM_TEST_CLASS ${test_class})
     configure_file(main.cpp.in Test${LASTFM_TEST_CLASS}.cpp)
     configure_file(Test${LASTFM_TEST_CLASS}.h Test${LASTFM_TEST_CLASS}.h)
     add_executable(${LASTFM_TEST_CLASS}Test Test${LASTFM_TEST_CLASS}.cpp)
 
-    if(Qt5Core_DIR)
-        target_link_libraries(${LASTFM_TEST_CLASS}Test Qt5::Core Qt5::Test Qt5::Xml Qt5::Network
-            ${LASTFM_LIB_TARGET_NAME}
-        )
-    else()
-        target_link_libraries(${LASTFM_TEST_CLASS}Test ${QT_QTCORE_LIBRARY} ${QT_QTTEST_LIBRARY}
-            ${LASTFM_LIB_TARGET_NAME}
-        )
-    endif()
+    target_link_libraries(${LASTFM_TEST_CLASS}Test Qt5::Core Qt5::Test Qt5::Xml Qt5::Network
+        ${LASTFM_LIB_TARGET_NAME}
+    )
 
     add_test(NAME ${LASTFM_TEST_CLASS}Test COMMAND ${LASTFM_TEST_CLASS}Test)
 endmacro()