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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:
      22,828
    • Recent downloads:
      1,945
    • 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:
      0.8.1
    • Downloads:
      9,242
    • Recent downloads:
      4,039
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      147
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-25

  • audir

    Audio

    Low-level audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      1,750
    • Recent downloads:
      227
    • 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:
      2,051,830
    • Recent downloads:
      203,256
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      305
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-06

  • cpal

    Audio

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

    • Latest version:
      0.16.0
    • Downloads:
      7,882,417
    • Recent downloads:
      992,559
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      3,251
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-11

  • ears

    Audio

    Easy Rust API to play audio using OpenAL

    • Latest version:
      0.8.0
    • Downloads:
      71,829
    • Recent downloads:
      3,419
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      22
    • Last activity:
      2021-09-22

  • fmod

    Audio

    A rust binding for the FMOD library

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      52,465
    • Recent downloads:
      2,940
    • License:
      non-standard
    • Stars:
      64
    • Last activity:
      2022-07-22

  • fyrox-sound

    Audio

    Sound library for games.

    • Latest version:
      0.36.2
    • Downloads:
      54,238
    • Recent downloads:
      6,323
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      8,486
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-14

  • gme

    Audio

    Rust bindings for Game Music Emu

    • Latest version:
      0.1.2
    • Downloads:
      4,984
    • Recent downloads:
      556
    • 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:
      6,926,680
    • Recent downloads:
      762,357
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      556
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-17

  • kira

    Audio

    Expressive audio library for games

    • Latest version:
      0.10.8
    • Downloads:
      504,459
    • Recent downloads:
      67,133
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      965
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-18

  • lewton

    Audio

    Pure Rust vorbis decoder

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      4,272,976
    • Recent downloads:
      445,193
    • 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:
      44,952
    • Recent downloads:
      5,266
    • 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:
      1,331,095
    • Recent downloads:
      61,934
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      72
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-15

  • mod_player

    Audio

    A library for parsing and playing mod music files

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      8,012
    • Recent downloads:
      893
    • 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:
      58,475
    • Recent downloads:
      6,736
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      932
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-29

  • oddio

    Audio

    Lightweight game audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.7.4
    • Downloads:
      33,035
    • Recent downloads:
      3,782
    • 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:
      49,972
    • Recent downloads:
      3,815
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      78
    • Last activity:
      2023-07-13

  • rodio

    Audio

    Audio playback library

    • Latest version:
      0.21.1
    • Downloads:
      4,803,273
    • Recent downloads:
      651,453
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,088
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-13

  • sdl2

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

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.38.0
    • Downloads:
      2,576,189
    • Recent downloads:
      235,895
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,904
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-12

  • sdl3

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

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.15.1
    • Downloads:
      75,210
    • Recent downloads:
      27,319
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      245
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-14

  • sfxr

    Audio

    Reimplementation of DrPetter's 'sfxr' sound effect generator

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      10,340
    • Recent downloads:
      841
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      54
    • Last activity:
      2023-05-04

  • soloud

    Audio

    Rust bindings for the soloud audio engine

    • Latest version:
      1.1.1
    • Downloads:
      98,035
    • Recent downloads:
      7,731
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      59
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-12

  • usfx

    Audio

    Realtime procedurally generated sound effects

    • Latest version:
      0.1.5
    • Downloads:
      17,555
    • Recent downloads:
      1,213
    • 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:
      100,237
    • Recent downloads:
      4,306
    • 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:
      92,770
    • Recent downloads:
      5,197
    • License:
      BSD-3-Clause
    • Stars:
      17
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-10

  • wavers

    Audio

    A library for reading and writing wav files.

    • Latest version:
      1.5.1
    • Downloads:
      38,837
    • Recent downloads:
      6,316
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      46
    • 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:
      133,370
    • Recent downloads:
      9,084
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      82
    • Last activity:
      2020-03-01

  • rsoundio

    Audio

    libsoundio bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.1.6
    • Downloads:
      12,442
    • Recent downloads:
      940
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      49
    • Last activity:
      2020-12-13

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