diff --git a/README b/README
index 8087161d5..d3bd354e1 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Anki
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-Prerequisites:
+Prerequisites for Linux/FreeBSD/etc:
 
 - a recent python (2.4 should be fine)
 - python-qt/pyqt 4.4+
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ For graph generation:
 
 For audio playing support:
 
-- mplayer on Windows/Linux (Mac uses native libraries)
+- mplayer
 
 For audio recording support: