diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 9185b0f..64d58e4 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -749,7 +749,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tonic",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-appender",
- "tracing-log",
  "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
 
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 736d9d8..c086f69 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ tonic-prost = "0.14"
 tonic-prost-build = "0.14"
 tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-appender = "0.2"
-tracing-log = "0.2"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
 url = "2"
 
diff --git a/crabidy-server/Cargo.toml b/crabidy-server/Cargo.toml
index 6094e07..4298b80 100644
--- a/crabidy-server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crabidy-server/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,5 +22,4 @@ tokio-stream = { workspace = true, features = ["sync"] }
 tonic.workspace = true
 tracing.workspace = true
 tracing-appender.workspace = true
-tracing-log.workspace = true
 tracing-subscriber.workspace = true
diff --git a/crabidy-server/src/main.rs b/crabidy-server/src/main.rs
index f78111f..f29bd2f 100644
--- a/crabidy-server/src/main.rs
+++ b/crabidy-server/src/main.rs
@@ -77,16 +77,13 @@ fn init_tracing() -> tracing_appender::non_blocking::WorkerGuard {
         .with_file(true)
         .with_line_number(true);
 
+    // .init() also installs the log-to-tracing bridge for libraries that
+    // use the `log` crate (symphonia, cpal, ...).
     tracing_subscriber::registry()
         .with(env_filter)
         .with(fmt_layer)
         .init();
 
-    // Forward records from libraries that use the `log` crate (symphonia,
-    // cpal, ...) into tracing.
-    if let Err(err) = tracing_log::LogTracer::init() {
-        warn!("failed to initialize log-to-tracing bridge: {err}");
-    }
     guard
 }