diff --git a/bucket/sox.json b/bucket/sox.json
index 0366c8502c..3a146fea05 100644
--- a/bucket/sox.json
+++ b/bucket/sox.json
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
     "hash": "sha1:825b218c275687a38e96bf838dcfdd2e9bd55a25",
     "extract_dir": "sox-14.4.2",
     "bin": "sox.exe",
-    "checkver": "SoX\\s+([\\d.]+)\\s+was released",
     "autoupdate": {
         "url": "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/sox/sox/$version/sox-$version-win32.zip",
         "extract_dir": "sox-$version"