diff --git a/audio/py-sounddevice/Makefile b/audio/py-sounddevice/Makefile
index fcf212107a4e..5e202a5d1e85 100644
--- a/audio/py-sounddevice/Makefile
+++ b/audio/py-sounddevice/Makefile
@@ -1,30 +1,27 @@
 PORTNAME=	sounddevice
-DISTVERSION=	0.5.1
-PORTREVISION=	3
+DISTVERSION=	0.5.5
 CATEGORIES=	audio python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Play and record sound through OSS in python programs
 WWW=		https://github.com/spatialaudio/python-sounddevice
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}cffi>=1.0.0:devel/py-cffi@${PY_FLAVOR}
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}cffi>=1.0.0:devel/py-cffi@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools-scm>0:devel/py-setuptools-scm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}cffi>=1.0.0:devel/py-cffi@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=1.16:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		portaudio>0:audio/portaudio
 
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist pep517
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
-post-install: # workaround for https://github.com/spatialaudio/python-sounddevice/issues/116
-	@${GREP} "/sounddevice\." < ${_PYTHONPKGLIST} \
-		| ${SED} -e 's|/sounddevice\.|/_sounddevice.|' \
-		>> ${_PYTHONPKGLIST}
-
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/audio/py-sounddevice/distinfo b/audio/py-sounddevice/distinfo
index c9f57f7eaaae..da08c0cbd9e5 100644
--- a/audio/py-sounddevice/distinfo
+++ b/audio/py-sounddevice/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1728840962
-SHA256 (sounddevice-0.5.1.tar.gz) = 09ca991daeda8ce4be9ac91e15a9a81c8f81efa6b695a348c9171ea0c16cb041
-SIZE (sounddevice-0.5.1.tar.gz) = 52896
+TIMESTAMP = 1785392913
+SHA256 (sounddevice-0.5.5.tar.gz) = 22487b65198cb5bf2208755105b524f78ad173e5ab6b445bdab1c989f6698df3
+SIZE (sounddevice-0.5.5.tar.gz) = 143191
diff --git a/audio/py-sounddevice/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/audio/py-sounddevice/files/patch-pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3a594ab25a0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/audio/py-sounddevice/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+-- Fix PEP 621 license declaration that the installed setuptools rejects.
+-- Upstream uses the string form accepted by newer tools; convert it to the
+-- table form so the port builds with the setuptools version in the tree.
+
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2026-07-29 23:30:00 UTC
++++ pyproject.toml
+@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+ [project]
+ name = "sounddevice"
+-license = "MIT"
++license = { text = "MIT" }
+ dynamic = ["version"]
+ description = "Play and Record Sound with Python"
+ readme = "README.rst"