diff --git a/airsonic-main/src/main/java/org/airsonic/player/util/StringUtil.java b/airsonic-main/src/main/java/org/airsonic/player/util/StringUtil.java
index 0080b8cd..9114d484 100644
--- a/airsonic-main/src/main/java/org/airsonic/player/util/StringUtil.java
+++ b/airsonic-main/src/main/java/org/airsonic/player/util/StringUtil.java
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.URLDecoder;
 import java.net.URLEncoder;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
-import java.security.MessageDigest;
 import java.text.*;
 import java.util.*;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
@@ -331,25 +330,6 @@ public final class StringUtil {
         return new String(Hex.decodeHex(s.toCharArray()), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Calculates the MD5 digest and returns the value as a 32 character hex string.
-     *
-     * @param s Data to digest.
-     * @return MD5 digest as a hex string.
-     */
-    public static String md5Hex(String s) {
-        if (s == null) {
-            return null;
-        }
-
-        try {
-            MessageDigest md5 = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
-            return new String(Hex.encodeHex(md5.digest(s.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8))));
-        } catch (Exception x) {
-            throw new RuntimeException(x.getMessage(), x);
-        }
-    }
-
     /**
      * Returns the file part of an URL. For instance:
      * <p/>
diff --git a/airsonic-main/src/test/java/org/airsonic/player/util/StringUtilTestCase.java b/airsonic-main/src/test/java/org/airsonic/player/util/StringUtilTestCase.java
index b187acb8..d161a108 100644
--- a/airsonic-main/src/test/java/org/airsonic/player/util/StringUtilTestCase.java
+++ b/airsonic-main/src/test/java/org/airsonic/player/util/StringUtilTestCase.java
@@ -147,12 +147,6 @@ public class StringUtilTestCase extends TestCase {
         assertEquals("Error in utf8hex.", s, StringUtil.utf8HexDecode(StringUtil.utf8HexEncode(s)));
     }
 
-    public void testMd5Hex() {
-        assertNull("Error in md5Hex().", StringUtil.md5Hex(null));
-        assertEquals("Error in md5Hex().", "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e", StringUtil.md5Hex(""));
-        assertEquals("Error in md5Hex().", "308ed0af23d48f6d2fd4717e77a23e0c", StringUtil.md5Hex("sindre@activeobjects.no"));
-    }
-
     public void testGetUrlFile() {
         assertEquals("Error in getUrlFile().", "foo.mp3", StringUtil.getUrlFile("http://www.asdf.com/foo.mp3"));
         assertEquals("Error in getUrlFile().", "foo.mp3", StringUtil.getUrlFile("http://www.asdf.com/bar/foo.mp3"));