diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1dea8187a..8fc3183ec 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1455,7 +1455,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "log",
  "rayon",
  "serde_json",
- "symphonia",
  "thiserror 2.0.21",
 ]
 
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 8810e3c16..b1c6caaf6 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -92,9 +92,6 @@ filmcraft-av1 = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/filmcraft", rev = "09aaf9b
 filmcraft-interchange = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/filmcraft", rev = "09aaf9bf15d510eda1c413c0ccabb1d7e08b41c5" }
 filmcraft-project = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/filmcraft", rev = "09aaf9bf15d510eda1c413c0ccabb1d7e08b41c5" }
 filmcraft-geom = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/filmcraft", rev = "09aaf9bf15d510eda1c413c0ccabb1d7e08b41c5" }
-# The symphonia filmcraft-codecs already builds, named only to turn on its AIFF reader: the pinned
-# rev enables wav alone (FilmCraft main enables aiff too). Drop it when the pin moves past that.
-symphonia = { version = "0.5.5", default-features = false, features = ["aiff"] }
 
 # gpu (the same wgpu eframe / egui-wgpu use)
 wgpu = { version = "30.0.1", features = ["fragile-send-sync-non-atomic-wasm"] }
diff --git a/crates/media/Cargo.toml b/crates/media/Cargo.toml
index bb47dccb0..a3ff624b4 100644
--- a/crates/media/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/media/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,8 +24,6 @@ filmcraft-isobmff = { workspace = true }
 filmcraft-frame = { workspace = true }
 filmcraft-color = { workspace = true }
 filmcraft-time = { workspace = true }
-# AIFF import (#1428): enables the aiff reader of filmcraft-codecs' symphonia.
-symphonia = { workspace = true }
 exr = { workspace = true }
 gif = { workspace = true }
 image = { workspace = true, features = ["gif", "webp", "tiff", "bmp", "exr", "tga", "hdr"] }