diff --git a/package/mpg123/mpg123.hash b/package/mpg123/mpg123.hash
index fa5580948c..69fbef36c2 100644
--- a/package/mpg123/mpg123.hash
+++ b/package/mpg123/mpg123.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-sha256	de2303c8ecb65593e39815c0a2f2f2d91f708c43b85a55fdd1934c82e677cf8e	mpg123-1.23.8.tar.bz2
+sha256	0fe7270a4071367f97a7c1fb45fb2ef3cfef73509c205124e080ea569217b05f	mpg123-1.25.1.tar.bz2
diff --git a/package/mpg123/mpg123.mk b/package/mpg123/mpg123.mk
index 27c46dcbc7..8eaaa6273a 100644
--- a/package/mpg123/mpg123.mk
+++ b/package/mpg123/mpg123.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-MPG123_VERSION = 1.23.8
+MPG123_VERSION = 1.25.1
 MPG123_SOURCE = mpg123-$(MPG123_VERSION).tar.bz2
 MPG123_SITE = http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mpg123/mpg123/$(MPG123_VERSION)
 MPG123_CONF_OPTS = --disable-lfs-alias
@@ -74,10 +74,11 @@ endif
 
 MPG123_CONF_OPTS += --with-audio=$(subst $(space),$(comma),$(MPG123_AUDIO))
 
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBTOOL),y)
-MPG123_DEPENDENCIES += libtool
-# .la files gets stripped , so directly load .so files rather than .la
-MPG123_CONF_OPTS += --with-modules --with-module-suffix=.so
+# output modules are loaded with dlopen()
+ifeq ($(BR2_STATIC_LIBS),y)
+MPG123_CONF_OPTS += --disable-modules
+else
+MPG123_CONF_OPTS += --enable-modules
 endif
 
 $(eval $(autotools-package))