diff --git a/po/POTFILES.skip b/po/POTFILES.skip
index 3a45660..b723dac 100644
--- a/po/POTFILES.skip
+++ b/po/POTFILES.skip
@@ -2,5 +2,6 @@ data/spek.desktop.in
 src/spek.c
 src/spek-pipeline.c
 src/spek-preferences-dialog.c
+src/spek-preferences.c
 src/spek-spectrogram.c
 src/spek-window.c