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Audio

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:
      20,316
    • Recent downloads:
      2,337
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      87
    • 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:
      0.6.4
    • Downloads:
      4,292
    • Recent downloads:
      4,292
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      144
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-18

  • audir

    Audio

    Low-level audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      1,464
    • Recent downloads:
      242
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      41
    • Last activity:
      2020-12-30

  • claxon

    Audio

    A FLAC decoding library

    • Latest version:
      0.4.3
    • Downloads:
      1,800,507
    • Recent downloads:
      157,905
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      300
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-06

  • cpal

    Audio

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

    • Latest version:
      0.15.3
    • Downloads:
      6,669,715
    • Recent downloads:
      701,007
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      3,057
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-08

  • ears

    Audio

    Easy Rust API to play audio using OpenAL

    • Latest version:
      0.8.0
    • Downloads:
      67,750
    • Recent downloads:
      3,590
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      23
    • Last activity:
      2021-09-22

  • fmod

    Audio

    A rust binding for the FMOD library

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      48,682
    • Recent downloads:
      4,410
    • License:
      non-standard
    • Stars:
      65
    • Last activity:
      2022-07-22

  • fyrox-sound

    Audio

    Sound library for games.

    • Latest version:
      0.36.2
    • Downloads:
      46,691
    • Recent downloads:
      6,851
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      8,254
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-18

  • gme

    Audio

    Rust bindings for Game Music Emu

    • Latest version:
      0.1.2
    • Downloads:
      4,259
    • Recent downloads:
      651
    • License:
      MIT AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
    • Stars:
      9
    • Last activity:
      2021-09-19

  • hound

    Audio

    A wav encoding and decoding library

    • Latest version:
      3.5.1
    • Downloads:
      5,944,498
    • Recent downloads:
      716,826
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      533
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-17

  • kira

    Audio

    Expressive audio library for games

    • Latest version:
      0.10.6
    • Downloads:
      426,043
    • Recent downloads:
      54,054
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      933
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-21

  • lewton

    Audio

    Pure Rust vorbis decoder

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      3,727,284
    • Recent downloads:
      303,853
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      274
    • Last activity:
      2023-03-02

  • libfmod

    Audio

    A library wrapper for integrating FMOD Engine in Rust applications.

    • Latest version:
      2.222.6
    • Downloads:
      38,276
    • Recent downloads:
      7,453
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      47
    • Last activity:
      2024-10-15

  • minimp3

    Audio

    Rust bindings for the minimp3 library.

    • Latest version:
      0.5.1
    • Downloads:
      1,263,817
    • Recent downloads:
      34,889
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      69
    • Last activity:
      2024-08-16

  • mod_player

    Audio

    A library for parsing and playing mod music files

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      6,867
    • Recent downloads:
      1,022
    • 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:
      0.13.0
    • Downloads:
      50,107
    • Recent downloads:
      7,888
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      907
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-29

  • oddio

    Audio

    Lightweight game audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.7.4
    • Downloads:
      28,591
    • Recent downloads:
      3,911
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      155
    • Last activity:
      2023-10-15

  • portmidi

    Audio

    High-level PortMidi bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.3.0
    • Downloads:
      45,320
    • Recent downloads:
      4,407
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      80
    • Last activity:
      2023-07-13

  • rodio

    Audio

    Audio playback library

    • Latest version:
      0.20.1
    • Downloads:
      4,030,752
    • Recent downloads:
      410,426
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,976
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-12

  • sdl2

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

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.37.0
    • Downloads:
      2,294,530
    • Recent downloads:
      173,007
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,851
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-31

  • sdl3

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

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.14.27
    • Downloads:
      42,509
    • Recent downloads:
      21,937
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      189
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-18

  • sfxr

    Audio

    Reimplementation of DrPetter's 'sfxr' sound effect generator

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      9,285
    • Recent downloads:
      986
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      54
    • Last activity:
      2023-05-04

  • soloud

    Audio

    Rust bindings for the soloud audio engine

    • Latest version:
      1.1.1
    • Downloads:
      88,714
    • Recent downloads:
      8,652
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      60
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-12

  • usfx

    Audio

    Realtime procedurally generated sound effects

    • Latest version:
      0.1.5
    • Downloads:
      16,053
    • Recent downloads:
      1,544
    • License:
      AGPL-3.0-or-later
    • Stars:
      56
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-18

  • vorbis

    Audio

    High-level bindings for the official libvorbis library.

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      94,877
    • Recent downloads:
      4,630
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      16
    • 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:
      85,648
    • Recent downloads:
      17,172
    • License:
      BSD-3-Clause
    • Stars:
      17
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-30

  • wavers

    Audio

    A library for reading and writing wav files.

    • Latest version:
      1.5.1
    • Downloads:
      30,646
    • Recent downloads:
      8,389
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      44
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-22

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:
      121,184
    • Recent downloads:
      12,903
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      82
    • Last activity:
      2020-03-01

  • rsoundio

    Audio

    libsoundio bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.1.6
    • Downloads:
      11,260
    • Recent downloads:
      1,195
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      50
    • Last activity:
      2020-12-13

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