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Wrappers for FMOD, OpenAL, MIDI and similar, and higher level APIs.

ambisonic

Audio

Compose and play 3D audio.
- Latest version:
  0.4.1
- Downloads:
  17,315
- Recent downloads:
  2,088
- License:
  MIT/Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  85
- Last activity:
  2023-01-04
audir

Audio

Low-level audio library
- Latest version:
  0.1.0
- Downloads:
  1,177
- Recent downloads:
  197
- License:
  MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  40
- Last activity:
  2020-12-30
claxon

Audio

A FLAC decoding library
- Latest version:
  0.4.3
- Downloads:
  1,600,227
- Recent downloads:
  139,727
- License:
  Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  291
- Last activity:
  2024-06-10
cpal

Audio

Low-level cross-platform audio I/O library in pure Rust.
- Latest version:
  0.15.3
- Downloads:
  5,787,129
- Recent downloads:
  668,950
- License:
  Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  2,891
- Last activity:
  2025-01-12
ears

Audio

Easy Rust API to play audio using OpenAL
- Latest version:
  0.8.0
- Downloads:
  63,201
- Recent downloads:
  3,554
- License:
  MIT
- Stars:
  22
- Last activity:
  2021-09-22
fmod

Audio

A rust binding for the FMOD library
- Latest version:
  0.10.2
- Downloads:
  43,269
- Recent downloads:
  3,689
- License:
  non-standard
- Stars:
  63
- Last activity:
  2022-07-22
fyrox-sound

Audio

Sound library for games.
- Latest version:
  0.35.0
- Downloads:
  38,146
- Recent downloads:
  5,974
- License:
  MIT
- Stars:
  7,924
- Last activity:
  2025-01-30
gme

Audio

Rust bindings for Game Music Emu
- Latest version:
  0.1.2
- Downloads:
  3,452
- Recent downloads:
  545
- License:
  MIT AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
- Stars:
  8
- Last activity:
  2021-09-19
hound

Audio

A wav encoding and decoding library
- Latest version:
  3.5.1
- Downloads:
  5,052,147
- Recent downloads:
  670,922
- License:
  Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  505
- Last activity:
  2024-08-18
kira

Audio

Expressive audio library for games
- Latest version:
  0.10.2
- Downloads:
  358,354
- Recent downloads:
  48,481
- License:
  MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  901
- Last activity:
  2025-01-18
lewton

Audio

Pure Rust vorbis decoder
- Latest version:
  0.10.2
- Downloads:
  3,346,328
- Recent downloads:
  286,435
- License:
  MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  265
- Last activity:
  2023-03-02
libfmod

Audio

A library wrapper for integrating FMOD Engine in Rust applications.
- Latest version:
  2.222.6
- Downloads:
  28,938
- Recent downloads:
  6,172
- License:
  MIT
- Stars:
  42
- Last activity:
  2024-10-15
minimp3

Audio

Rust bindings for the minimp3 library.
- Latest version:
  0.5.1
- Downloads:
  1,216,744
- Recent downloads:
  33,136
- License:
  MIT
- Stars:
  66
- Last activity:
  2024-08-16
mod_player

Audio

A library for parsing and playing mod music files
- Latest version:
  0.1.4
- Downloads:
  5,617
- Recent downloads:
  1,273
- License:
  MIT
- Stars:
  29
- Last activity:
  2022-11-10
notan

2D Rendering · Audio · Game Engines · Text Rendering · Input · Windowing

A simple portable multimedia layer to create apps or games easily
- Latest version:
  0.12.1
- Downloads:
  40,483
- Recent downloads:
  6,452
- License:
  MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  849
- Last activity:
  2025-01-26
oddio

Audio

Lightweight game audio library
- Latest version:
  0.7.4
- Downloads:
  23,492
- Recent downloads:
  3,497
- License:
  MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  153
- Last activity:
  2023-10-15
portmidi

Audio

High-level PortMidi bindings for Rust
- Latest version:
  0.3.0
- Downloads:
  39,726
- Recent downloads:
  3,687
- License:
  MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  79
- Last activity:
  2023-07-13
rodio

Audio

Audio playback library
- Latest version:
  0.20.1
- Downloads:
  3,523,812
- Recent downloads:
  347,424
- License:
  MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  1,875
- Last activity:
  2025-01-25
sdl2

2D Rendering · Audio · Game Engines · Text Rendering · Input · Windowing

SDL2 bindings for Rust
- Latest version:
  0.37.0
- Downloads:
  2,076,166
- Recent downloads:
  130,289
- License:
  MIT
- Stars:
  2,810
- Last activity:
  2024-08-20
sdl3

2D Rendering · Audio · Game Engines · 3D Rendering · Input · Windowing

Cross-platform multimedia
- Latest version:
  0.14.3
- Downloads:
  16,072
- Recent downloads:
  10,080
- License:
  MIT
- Stars:
  90
- Last activity:
  2025-01-30
sfxr

Audio

Reimplementation of DrPetter's 'sfxr' sound effect generator
- Latest version:
  0.1.4
- Downloads:
  8,027
- Recent downloads:
  793
- License:
  MIT
- Stars:
  51
- Last activity:
  2023-05-04
soloud

Audio

Rust bindings for the soloud audio engine
- Latest version:
  1.0.5
- Downloads:
  78,139
- Recent downloads:
  7,281
- License:
  MIT
- Stars:
  58
- Last activity:
  2024-04-18
usfx

Audio

Realtime procedurally generated sound effects
- Latest version:
  0.1.5
- Downloads:
  14,194
- Recent downloads:
  1,245
- License:
  AGPL-3.0-or-later
- Stars:
  54
- Last activity:
  2025-01-27
vorbis

Audio

High-level bindings for the official libvorbis library.
- Latest version:
  0.1.0
- Downloads:
  88,727
- Recent downloads:
  4,137
- License:
  Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  15
- Last activity:
  2021-03-20
vorbis_rs

Audio

Ogg Vorbis stream encoding and decoding powered by high-level bindings for best-in-breed C libraries
- Latest version:
  0.5.5
- Downloads:
  61,221
- Recent downloads:
  23,024
- License:
  BSD-3-Clause
- Stars:
  17
- Last activity:
  2025-01-27

These crates are no longer maintained, but may still be of interest.

alto

Audio

Idiomatic interface for OpenAL 1.1 and extensions (including EFX)
- Latest version:
  3.0.4
- Downloads:
  105,324
- Recent downloads:
  9,752
- License:
  MIT/Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  80
- Last activity:
  2020-03-01
rsoundio

Audio

libsoundio bindings for Rust
- Latest version:
  0.1.6
- Downloads:
  9,821
- Recent downloads:
  880
- License:
  MIT/Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  48
- Last activity:
  2020-12-13

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