diff --git a/bin/mpdevil b/bin/mpdevil
index 71fc9e6..5d6cf48 100755
--- a/bin/mpdevil
+++ b/bin/mpdevil
@@ -34,13 +34,13 @@ import datetime
 import os
 import sys
 import re
-import mpdevil  # only used to get version
 
 # MPRIS modules
 import dbus
 import dbus.service
 from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop
 
+VERSION='0.8.5'  # sync with setup.py
 COVER_REGEX="^\.?(album|cover|folder|front).*\.(gif|jpeg|jpg|png)$"
 
 
@@ -3253,7 +3253,7 @@ class AboutDialog(Gtk.AboutDialog):
 	def __init__(self, window):
 		super().__init__(transient_for=window, modal=True)
 		self.set_program_name("mpdevil")
-		self.set_version(mpdevil.__version__)
+		self.set_version(VERSION)
 		self.set_comments(_("A small MPD client written in python"))
 		self.set_authors(["Martin Wagner"])
 		self.set_website("https://github.com/SoongNoonien/mpdevil")
diff --git a/mpdevil/__init__.py b/mpdevil/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 7edb29e..0000000
--- a/mpdevil/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python3
-__version__='0.8.5'
-
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f54508b..f9cb8a9 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python3
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import DistUtilsExtra.auto
-import mpdevil
 
 DistUtilsExtra.auto.setup(
 	name='mpdevil',
-	version=mpdevil.__version__,
+	version='0.8.5',  # sync with bin/mpdevil
 	author="Martin Wagner",
 	author_email="martin.wagner.dev@gmail.com",
 	description=('A small MPD client written in python'),