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

Crates

  • ambisonic

    Audio

    Compose and play 3D audio.

    • Latest version:
      0.4.1
    • Downloads:
      24,442
    • Recent downloads:
      546
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      90
    • Last activity:
      2023-01-04

  • audionimbus

    Audio

    A safe wrapper around Steam Audio that provides spatial audio capabilities with realistic occlusion, reverb, and HRTF effects, accounting for physical attributes and scene geometry.

    • Latest version:
      0.12.0
    • Downloads:
      12,899
    • Recent downloads:
      827
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      179
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-14

  • audir

    Audio

    Low-level audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      1,866
    • Recent downloads:
      11
    • 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:
      2,597,436
    • Recent downloads:
      375,589
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      321
    • Last activity:
      2025-12-03

  • cpal

    Audio

    Low-level cross-platform audio I/O library in pure Rust.

    • Latest version:
      0.17.3
    • Downloads:
      10,597,907
    • Recent downloads:
      1,729,047
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      3,551
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-19

  • ears

    Audio

    Easy Rust API to play audio using OpenAL

    • Latest version:
      0.8.0
    • Downloads:
      75,454
    • Recent downloads:
      1,638
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      22
    • Last activity:
      2021-09-22

  • fmod

    Audio

    A rust binding for the FMOD library

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      54,022
    • Recent downloads:
      328
    • License:
      non-standard
    • Stars:
      66
    • Last activity:
      2022-07-22

  • fyrox-sound

    Audio

    Sound library for games.

    • Latest version:
      0.36.2
    • Downloads:
      62,630
    • Recent downloads:
      3,323
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      8,889
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-22

  • gme

    Audio

    Rust bindings for Game Music Emu

    • Latest version:
      0.1.2
    • Downloads:
      5,246
    • Recent downloads:
      32
    • License:
      MIT AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
    • Stars:
      10
    • Last activity:
      2025-10-26

  • hound

    Audio

    A wav encoding and decoding library

    • Latest version:
      3.5.1
    • Downloads:
      9,102,329
    • Recent downloads:
      1,436,452
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      593
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-08

  • kira

    Audio

    Expressive audio library for games

    • Latest version:
      0.12.0
    • Downloads:
      641,287
    • Recent downloads:
      80,731
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      996
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-18

  • lewton

    Audio

    Pure Rust vorbis decoder

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      5,488,676
    • Recent downloads:
      788,170
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      286
    • Last activity:
      2023-03-02

  • libfmod

    Audio

    A library wrapper for integrating FMOD Engine in Rust applications.

    • Latest version:
      2.222.6
    • Downloads:
      48,704
    • Recent downloads:
      1,157
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      51
    • Last activity:
      2024-10-15

  • minimp3

    Audio

    Rust bindings with a high-level wrapper for the minimp3 C library.

    • Latest version:
      0.6.1
    • Downloads:
      1,488,007
    • Recent downloads:
      82,835
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      75
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-03

  • mod_player

    Audio

    A library for parsing and playing mod music files

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      8,359
    • Recent downloads:
      41
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      31
    • 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:
      0.14.0
    • Downloads:
      65,644
    • Recent downloads:
      3,287
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      960
    • Last activity:
      2026-01-17

  • oddio

    Audio

    Lightweight game audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.7.4
    • Downloads:
      46,856
    • Recent downloads:
      10,061
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      161
    • Last activity:
      2023-10-15

  • portmidi

    Audio

    High-level PortMidi bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.3.0
    • Downloads:
      53,675
    • Recent downloads:
      1,578
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      79
    • Last activity:
      2023-07-13

  • rodio

    Audio

    Audio playback and recording library

    • Latest version:
      0.22.1
    • Downloads:
      6,495,504
    • Recent downloads:
      1,064,332
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,264
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-22

  • sdl2

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

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.38.0
    • Downloads:
      3,293,583
    • Recent downloads:
      462,734
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,938
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-19

  • sdl3

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

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.17.3
    • Downloads:
      112,078
    • Recent downloads:
      17,382
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      311
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-22

  • sfxr

    Audio

    Reimplementation of DrPetter's 'sfxr' sound effect generator

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      11,012
    • Recent downloads:
      187
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      54
    • Last activity:
      2023-05-04

  • soloud

    Audio

    Rust bindings for the soloud audio engine

    • Latest version:
      1.1.1
    • Downloads:
      107,194
    • Recent downloads:
      3,942
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      60
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-12

  • usfx

    Audio

    Realtime procedurally generated sound effects

    • Latest version:
      0.1.5
    • Downloads:
      18,481
    • Recent downloads:
      273
    • License:
      AGPL-3.0-or-later
    • Stars:
      56
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-08

  • vorbis

    Audio

    High-level bindings for the official libvorbis library.

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      104,094
    • Recent downloads:
      1,371
    • 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:
      115,739
    • Recent downloads:
      12,556
    • License:
      BSD-3-Clause
    • Stars:
      19
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-09

  • wavers

    Audio

    A library for reading and writing wav files.

    • Latest version:
      1.5.1
    • Downloads:
      46,929
    • Recent downloads:
      3,798
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      48
    • Last activity:
      2026-01-10

Archived

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:
      138,917
    • Recent downloads:
      1,192
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      82
    • Last activity:
      2020-03-01

  • rsoundio

    Audio

    libsoundio bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.1.6
    • Downloads:
      12,936
    • Recent downloads:
      68
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      49
    • Last activity:
      2020-12-13

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