diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index fc76ad62f6d..c60897b9fa9 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1894,3 +1894,4 @@ libgdict-1.0.so.6 gnome-dictionary-3.14.1_1
 libasignify.so.1 asignify-1.0_1
 libvte2_90.so.9 vte290-0.36.3_1
 libd0_blind_id.so.0 xonotic-0.8.0_1
+libechonest.so.2.3 libechonest-2.3.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libechonest-devel b/srcpkgs/libechonest-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..f80906acde0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libechonest-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libechonest
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libechonest/template b/srcpkgs/libechonest/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8829e6a2c3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libechonest/template
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Template file for 'libechonest'
+pkgname=libechonest
+version=2.3.0
+revision=1
+build_style=cmake
+hostmakedepends="cmake qt-qmake"
+makedepends="qjson-devel boost-devel"
+short_desc="A C++/Qt wrapper around the wonderful echo nest api"
+maintainer="Duncan Overbruck <mail@duncano.de>"
+license="GPL-2"
+homepage="https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/libs/libechonest"
+distfiles="http://files.lfranchi.com/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.bz2"
+checksum=79983ba72fbf9b112ebfb329b96b60eddf25d719ebe34eb70de01aa106ae2b44
+
+libechonest-devel_package() {
+	depends="libechonest>=${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/*.so
+	}
+}