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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:
      22,392
    • Recent downloads:
      1,908
    • 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:
      0.8.0
    • Downloads:
      8,255
    • Recent downloads:
      3,615
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      146
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-23

  • audir

    Audio

    Low-level audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      1,706
    • Recent downloads:
      225
    • 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:
      1,988,638
    • Recent downloads:
      174,931
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      304
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-06

  • cpal

    Audio

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

    • Latest version:
      0.16.0
    • Downloads:
      7,574,524
    • Recent downloads:
      839,887
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      3,218
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-14

  • ears

    Audio

    Easy Rust API to play audio using OpenAL

    • Latest version:
      0.8.0
    • Downloads:
      71,053
    • Recent downloads:
      3,117
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      22
    • Last activity:
      2021-09-22

  • fmod

    Audio

    A rust binding for the FMOD library

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      51,872
    • Recent downloads:
      2,938
    • License:
      non-standard
    • Stars:
      64
    • Last activity:
      2022-07-22

  • fyrox-sound

    Audio

    Sound library for games.

    • Latest version:
      0.36.2
    • Downloads:
      52,223
    • Recent downloads:
      5,240
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      8,450
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-24

  • gme

    Audio

    Rust bindings for Game Music Emu

    • Latest version:
      0.1.2
    • Downloads:
      4,878
    • Recent downloads:
      558
    • 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:
      6,731,107
    • Recent downloads:
      718,952
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      550
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-17

  • kira

    Audio

    Expressive audio library for games

    • Latest version:
      0.10.8
    • Downloads:
      487,106
    • Recent downloads:
      58,380
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      959
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-18

  • lewton

    Audio

    Pure Rust vorbis decoder

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      4,104,257
    • Recent downloads:
      351,527
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      280
    • Last activity:
      2023-03-02

  • libfmod

    Audio

    A library wrapper for integrating FMOD Engine in Rust applications.

    • Latest version:
      2.222.6
    • Downloads:
      43,922
    • Recent downloads:
      5,255
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      47
    • 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:
      1,306,122
    • Recent downloads:
      40,866
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      71
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-15

  • mod_player

    Audio

    A library for parsing and playing mod music files

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      7,852
    • Recent downloads:
      923
    • 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:
      57,133
    • Recent downloads:
      6,594
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      926
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-29

  • oddio

    Audio

    Lightweight game audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.7.4
    • Downloads:
      32,079
    • Recent downloads:
      3,360
    • 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:
      49,122
    • Recent downloads:
      3,555
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      78
    • Last activity:
      2023-07-13

  • rodio

    Audio

    Audio playback library

    • Latest version:
      0.21.1
    • Downloads:
      4,574,699
    • Recent downloads:
      512,155
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,071
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-25

  • sdl2

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

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.38.0
    • Downloads:
      2,509,512
    • Recent downloads:
      202,482
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,891
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-12

  • sdl3

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

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.14.41
    • Downloads:
      68,231
    • Recent downloads:
      24,679
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      239
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-24

  • sfxr

    Audio

    Reimplementation of DrPetter's 'sfxr' sound effect generator

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      10,136
    • Recent downloads:
      792
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      54
    • Last activity:
      2023-05-04

  • soloud

    Audio

    Rust bindings for the soloud audio engine

    • Latest version:
      1.1.1
    • Downloads:
      96,145
    • Recent downloads:
      7,004
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      59
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-12

  • usfx

    Audio

    Realtime procedurally generated sound effects

    • Latest version:
      0.1.5
    • Downloads:
      17,278
    • Recent downloads:
      1,149
    • License:
      AGPL-3.0-or-later
    • Stars:
      55
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-11

  • vorbis

    Audio

    High-level bindings for the official libvorbis library.

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      99,244
    • Recent downloads:
      4,064
    • 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:
      91,425
    • Recent downloads:
      4,976
    • License:
      BSD-3-Clause
    • Stars:
      17
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-23

  • wavers

    Audio

    A library for reading and writing wav files.

    • Latest version:
      1.5.1
    • Downloads:
      37,388
    • Recent downloads:
      6,030
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      45
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-06

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:
      131,292
    • Recent downloads:
      9,051
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      82
    • Last activity:
      2020-03-01

  • rsoundio

    Audio

    libsoundio bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.1.6
    • Downloads:
      12,280
    • Recent downloads:
      946
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      49
    • Last activity:
      2020-12-13

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