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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:
      23,950
    • Recent downloads:
      1,335
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      89
    • 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:
      0.10.0
    • Downloads:
      12,109
    • Recent downloads:
      3,296
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      158
    • Last activity:
      2025-10-28

  • audir

    Audio

    Low-level audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      1,855
    • Recent downloads:
      127
    • 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:
      2,243,236
    • Recent downloads:
      223,497
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      311
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-06

  • cpal

    Audio

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

    • Latest version:
      0.16.0
    • Downloads:
      8,974,032
    • Recent downloads:
      1,251,305
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      3,361
    • Last activity:
      2025-11-28

  • ears

    Audio

    Easy Rust API to play audio using OpenAL

    • Latest version:
      0.8.0
    • Downloads:
      73,948
    • Recent downloads:
      2,581
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      22
    • Last activity:
      2021-09-22

  • fmod

    Audio

    A rust binding for the FMOD library

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      53,706
    • Recent downloads:
      1,558
    • License:
      non-standard
    • Stars:
      66
    • Last activity:
      2022-07-22

  • fyrox-sound

    Audio

    Sound library for games.

    • Latest version:
      0.36.2
    • Downloads:
      59,531
    • Recent downloads:
      6,746
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      8,734
    • Last activity:
      2025-11-30

  • gme

    Audio

    Rust bindings for Game Music Emu

    • Latest version:
      0.1.2
    • Downloads:
      5,214
    • Recent downloads:
      280
    • License:
      MIT AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
    • Stars:
      9
    • Last activity:
      2025-10-26

  • hound

    Audio

    A wav encoding and decoding library

    • Latest version:
      3.5.1
    • Downloads:
      7,749,387
    • Recent downloads:
      936,024
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      568
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-17

  • kira

    Audio

    Expressive audio library for games

    • Latest version:
      0.11.0
    • Downloads:
      566,203
    • Recent downloads:
      71,820
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      983
    • Last activity:
      2025-11-05

  • lewton

    Audio

    Pure Rust vorbis decoder

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      4,744,656
    • Recent downloads:
      549,487
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      281
    • Last activity:
      2023-03-02

  • libfmod

    Audio

    A library wrapper for integrating FMOD Engine in Rust applications.

    • Latest version:
      2.222.6
    • Downloads:
      47,607
    • Recent downloads:
      3,218
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      50
    • 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:
      1,411,545
    • Recent downloads:
      92,216
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      73
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-15

  • mod_player

    Audio

    A library for parsing and playing mod music files

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      8,318
    • Recent downloads:
      383
    • 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:
      62,575
    • Recent downloads:
      4,908
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      944
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-18

  • oddio

    Audio

    Lightweight game audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.7.4
    • Downloads:
      37,372
    • Recent downloads:
      4,886
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      158
    • Last activity:
      2023-10-15

  • portmidi

    Audio

    High-level PortMidi bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.3.0
    • Downloads:
      52,200
    • Recent downloads:
      2,719
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      79
    • Last activity:
      2023-07-13

  • rodio

    Audio

    Audio playback library

    • Latest version:
      0.21.1
    • Downloads:
      5,494,811
    • Recent downloads:
      807,805
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,166
    • Last activity:
      2025-11-25

  • sdl2

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

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.38.0
    • Downloads:
      2,860,675
    • Recent downloads:
      324,456
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,923
    • Last activity:
      2025-11-26

  • sdl3

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

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.16.2
    • Downloads:
      96,161
    • Recent downloads:
      24,502
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      277
    • Last activity:
      2025-11-24

  • sfxr

    Audio

    Reimplementation of DrPetter's 'sfxr' sound effect generator

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      10,837
    • Recent downloads:
      614
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      54
    • Last activity:
      2023-05-04

  • soloud

    Audio

    Rust bindings for the soloud audio engine

    • Latest version:
      1.1.1
    • Downloads:
      103,551
    • Recent downloads:
      6,681
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      60
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-12

  • usfx

    Audio

    Realtime procedurally generated sound effects

    • Latest version:
      0.1.5
    • Downloads:
      18,224
    • Recent downloads:
      844
    • License:
      AGPL-3.0-or-later
    • Stars:
      55
    • Last activity:
      2025-11-30

  • vorbis

    Audio

    High-level bindings for the official libvorbis library.

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      102,876
    • Recent downloads:
      3,258
    • 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:
      104,535
    • Recent downloads:
      12,730
    • License:
      BSD-3-Clause
    • Stars:
      18
    • Last activity:
      2025-11-20

  • wavers

    Audio

    A library for reading and writing wav files.

    • Latest version:
      1.5.1
    • Downloads:
      43,395
    • Recent downloads:
      5,458
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      48
    • 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:
      137,828
    • Recent downloads:
      5,513
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      82
    • Last activity:
      2020-03-01

  • rsoundio

    Audio

    libsoundio bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.1.6
    • Downloads:
      12,871
    • Recent downloads:
      507
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      49
    • Last activity:
      2020-12-13

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