diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c694029..1d10f10 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -44,3 +44,6 @@ Documentation = "https://bendalab.github.io/audioio"
 audioconverter = "audioio.audioconverter:main"
 audiometadata  = "audioio.audiometadata:main"
 audiomodules   = "audioio.audiomodules:main"
+
+[tool.setuptools.dynamic]
+version = {attr = "audioio.version.__version__"}
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 47e6a34..89cf661 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,9 +1,5 @@
-from setuptools import setup, find_packages
-
-exec(open('audioio/version.py').read())
+from setuptools import setup
 
 setup(
-    version = __version__,
     packages = ['audioio']
-    #packages = find_packages(exclude = ['docs', 'tests', 'site'])
 )