diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index f8cd901..eebba29 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 include README.md
 include CHANGELOG.md
-include ear/core/data/README.md
 include LICENSE
 include doc/layout_file.md
 include tox.ini
+
+graft ear
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..30855b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "ear"
+description = 'EBU ADM Renderer'
+version = '2.1.0'
+authors = [
+    {name = "EBU", email = "ear-admin@list.ebu.ch"},
+]
+license = {file = "LICENSE"}  # BSD-3-Clause-Clear
+requires-python = ">=3.7"
+dynamic = ["readme"]
+
+dependencies = [
+    'numpy~=1.14',
+    'scipy~=1.0',
+    'attrs>=22.2',
+    'PyYAML~=6.0',
+    'lxml~=4.4',
+    'six~=1.11',
+    'multipledispatch~=1.0',
+    # required until 2024-10 when python 3.9 will be the minimum supported version
+    'importlib_resources>=5.0',
+]
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+test = [
+    'pytest~=6.2',
+    'pytest-datafiles~=2.0',
+    'pytest-cov~=3.0',
+    'soundfile~=0.10',
+]
+dev = [
+    'flake8~=3.5',
+    'flake8-print~=3.1',
+    'flake8-string-format~=0.2',
+]
+
+[project.scripts]
+ear-render = "ear.cmdline.render_file:main"
+ear-utils = "ear.cmdline.utils:main"
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+include = ["ear", "ear.*"]
+
+[tool.setuptools.dynamic]
+readme = {file = ["README.md", "CHANGELOG.md"], content-type = "text/markdown"}
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 90b93ff..0000000
--- a/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-from setuptools import setup, find_packages
-
-setup(
-    name='ear',
-    description='EBU ADM Renderer',
-    version='2.1.0',
-
-    url='https://github.com/ebu/ebu_adm_renderer',
-
-    author='EBU',
-    author_email='ear-admin@list.ebu.ch',
-    license='BSD-3-Clause-Clear',
-
-    long_description=open('README.md').read() + '\n' + open('CHANGELOG.md').read(),
-    long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
-
-    install_requires=[
-        'numpy~=1.14',
-        'scipy~=1.0',
-        'attrs>=22.2',
-        'PyYAML~=6.0',
-        'lxml~=4.4',
-        'six~=1.11',
-        'multipledispatch~=1.0',
-        # required until 2024-10 when python 3.9 will be the minimum supported version
-        'importlib_resources>=5.0',
-    ],
-
-    extras_require={
-        'test': [
-            'pytest~=6.2',
-            'pytest-datafiles~=2.0',
-            'pytest-cov~=3.0',
-            'soundfile~=0.10',
-        ],
-        'dev': [
-            'flake8~=3.5',
-            'flake8-print~=3.1',
-            'flake8-string-format~=0.2',
-        ],
-    },
-
-    packages=find_packages(),
-
-    package_data={
-        "ear.test": ["data/*.yaml", "data/*.wav"],
-        "ear.core": ["data/*.yaml", "data/*.dat"],
-        "ear.core.test": ["data/psp_pvs/*.npz"],
-        "ear.core.objectbased.test": ["data/gain_calc_pvs/*"],
-        "ear.fileio.adm": ["data/*.xml"],
-        "ear.fileio.adm.test": ["test_adm_files/*.xml"],
-        "ear.fileio.bw64.test": ["test_wav_files/*.wav"],
-    },
-
-    entry_points={
-        'console_scripts': [
-            'ear-render = ear.cmdline.render_file:main',
-            'ear-utils = ear.cmdline.utils:main'
-        ]
-    },
-)