diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 10f9f7de96..9e3582d6bd 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Citra Emulator Project
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 
-[submodule "cubeb"]
-	path = externals/cubeb
-	url = https://github.com/mozilla/cubeb.git
 [submodule "libusb"]
 	path = externals/libusb/libusb
 	url = https://github.com/libusb/libusb.git
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 0c2a880ae0..078fe417c6 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -426,10 +426,6 @@ if (ARCHITECTURE_x86_64 OR ARCHITECTURE_arm64)
     find_package(dynarmic 6.4.0 CONFIG)
 endif()
 
-if (ENABLE_CUBEB)
-    find_package(cubeb CONFIG)
-endif()
-
 if (USE_DISCORD_PRESENCE)
     find_package(DiscordRPC MODULE)
 endif()
diff --git a/externals/CMakeLists.txt b/externals/CMakeLists.txt
index cd7b80a33c..9e7eb95299 100644
--- a/externals/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/externals/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Citra Emulator Project
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 
+# cpm
+include(CPM)
+
 # Dynarmic has cmake_minimum_required(3.12) and we may want to override
 # some of its variables, which is only possible in 3.13+
 set(CMAKE_POLICY_DEFAULT_CMP0077 NEW)
@@ -83,7 +86,6 @@ if (YUZU_USE_EXTERNAL_SDL2)
         set(SDL_FILE ON)
     endif()
 
-    include(CPM)
     set(CPM_USE_LOCAL_PACKAGES OFF)
 
     if ("${YUZU_SYSTEM_PROFILE}" STREQUAL "steamdeck")
@@ -109,20 +111,6 @@ if (NOT TARGET enet::enet)
     add_library(enet::enet ALIAS enet)
 endif()
 
-# Cubeb
-if (ENABLE_CUBEB AND NOT TARGET cubeb::cubeb)
-    set(BUILD_TESTS OFF)
-    set(BUILD_TOOLS OFF)
-    add_subdirectory(cubeb)
-    add_library(cubeb::cubeb ALIAS cubeb)
-    if (NOT MSVC)
-        if (TARGET speex)
-            target_compile_options(speex PRIVATE -Wno-sign-compare)
-        endif()
-        target_compile_options(cubeb PRIVATE -Wno-implicit-const-int-float-conversion)
-    endif()
-endif()
-
 # DiscordRPC
 if (USE_DISCORD_PRESENCE AND NOT TARGET DiscordRPC::discord-rpc)
     set(BUILD_EXAMPLES OFF)
diff --git a/externals/cubeb b/externals/cubeb
deleted file mode 160000
index fa02160712..0000000000
--- a/externals/cubeb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit fa021607121360af7c171d881dc5bc8af7bb56eb
diff --git a/src/audio_core/CMakeLists.txt b/src/audio_core/CMakeLists.txt
index 8c94109de0..a1e5bdbdcd 100644
--- a/src/audio_core/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/audio_core/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -232,12 +232,14 @@ if (ARCHITECTURE_x86_64 OR ARCHITECTURE_arm64)
 endif()
 
 if (ENABLE_CUBEB)
+    add_subdirectory(externals/cubeb)
+
     target_sources(audio_core PRIVATE
         sink/cubeb_sink.cpp
         sink/cubeb_sink.h
     )
 
-    target_link_libraries(audio_core PRIVATE cubeb::cubeb)
+    target_link_libraries(audio_core PRIVATE cubeb)
     target_compile_definitions(audio_core PRIVATE -DHAVE_CUBEB=1)
 endif()
 
diff --git a/src/audio_core/externals/cubeb/CMakeLists.txt b/src/audio_core/externals/cubeb/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a32bb5f9e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/audio_core/externals/cubeb/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Eden Emulator Project
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+include(CPM)
+set(CPM_USE_LOCAL_PACKAGES ON)
+CPMAddPackage(
+    URI "gh:mozilla/cubeb#fa02160712"
+    FIND_PACKAGE_ARGUMENTS "CONFIG" # not sure this works outside of gentoo
+)
+
+if (cubeb_ADDED)
+    set(BUILD_TESTS OFF)
+    set(BUILD_TOOLS OFF)
+
+    if (NOT MSVC)
+        if (TARGET speex)
+            target_compile_options(speex PRIVATE -Wno-sign-compare)
+        endif()
+        target_compile_options(cubeb PRIVATE
+            -Wno-implicit-const-int-float-conversion
+            -Wno-shadow
+            -Wno-missing-declarations -Wno-return-type
+        )
+    endif()
+endif()