diff --git a/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/projectm/files/0003-remove-assertion-which-breaks-build.patch b/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/projectm/files/0003-remove-assertion-which-breaks-build.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..69931aaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/projectm/files/0003-remove-assertion-which-breaks-build.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From a22285143063b99f9a6890e3b6c59366bc71f071 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Andreas=20M=C3=BCller?= <schnitzeltony@googlemail.com>
+Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 19:50:44 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] remove assertion which breaks build
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+Signed-off-by: Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony@googlemail.com>
+---
+ src/libprojectM/MilkdropPresetFactory/Parser.cpp | 1 -
+ 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/libprojectM/MilkdropPresetFactory/Parser.cpp b/src/libprojectM/MilkdropPresetFactory/Parser.cpp
+index bf7c0f9..06943e1 100755
+--- a/src/libprojectM/MilkdropPresetFactory/Parser.cpp
++++ b/src/libprojectM/MilkdropPresetFactory/Parser.cpp
+@@ -1776,7 +1776,6 @@ int Parser::parse_wavecode(char * token, std::istream &  fs, MilkdropPreset * pr
+   Param * param;
+ 
+   assert(preset);
+-  assert(fs);
+   assert(token);
+ 
+   /* token should be in the form wavecode_N_var, such as wavecode_1_samples */
+-- 
+2.9.4
+
diff --git a/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/projectm/projectm_git.bb b/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/projectm/projectm_git.bb
index 59d32f42..a37eeee1 100644
--- a/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/projectm/projectm_git.bb
+++ b/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/projectm/projectm_git.bb
@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ SRC_URI = " \
 	http://spiegelmc.com.s3.amazonaws.com/pub/projectm_presets.zip;name=presets \
     file://0001-Fix-sdl2-build.patch \
     file://0002-workaround-link-failures.patch \
+    file://0003-remove-assertion-which-breaks-build.patch \
 "
-SRCREV_projectm = "eafa3251c3af3a801950d588c3b531fbc7cba317"
+SRCREV_projectm = "04001c2b12de848962b74a3938d0ca877ca611be"
 SRC_URI[presets.md5sum] = "8976d72c05e3f4ddee996c6f2e98fc63"
 SRC_URI[presets.sha256sum] = "e323515f0ee5920ec45e4f9efdb55890f028dabb5ae9468fdc97c43d55040614"