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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:
      19,411
    • Recent downloads:
      2,429
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      86
    • 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:
      0.6.2
    • Downloads:
      1,624
    • Recent downloads:
      1,624
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      134
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-13

  • audir

    Audio

    Low-level audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      1,367
    • Recent downloads:
      209
    • 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:
      1,744,978
    • Recent downloads:
      175,415
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      296
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-06

  • cpal

    Audio

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

    • Latest version:
      0.15.3
    • Downloads:
      6,425,836
    • Recent downloads:
      778,258
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      3,007
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-08

  • ears

    Audio

    Easy Rust API to play audio using OpenAL

    • Latest version:
      0.8.0
    • Downloads:
      66,178
    • Recent downloads:
      3,501
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      22
    • Last activity:
      2021-09-22

  • fmod

    Audio

    A rust binding for the FMOD library

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      46,820
    • Recent downloads:
      3,937
    • License:
      non-standard
    • Stars:
      64
    • Last activity:
      2022-07-22

  • fyrox-sound

    Audio

    Sound library for games.

    • Latest version:
      0.36.2
    • Downloads:
      44,062
    • Recent downloads:
      6,665
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      8,179
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-13

  • gme

    Audio

    Rust bindings for Game Music Emu

    • Latest version:
      0.1.2
    • Downloads:
      4,039
    • Recent downloads:
      647
    • 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:
      5,694,247
    • Recent downloads:
      773,901
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      524
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-06

  • kira

    Audio

    Expressive audio library for games

    • Latest version:
      0.10.5
    • Downloads:
      404,742
    • Recent downloads:
      57,416
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      929
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-06

  • lewton

    Audio

    Pure Rust vorbis decoder

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      3,621,101
    • Recent downloads:
      329,662
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      273
    • Last activity:
      2023-03-02

  • libfmod

    Audio

    A library wrapper for integrating FMOD Engine in Rust applications.

    • Latest version:
      2.222.6
    • Downloads:
      35,111
    • Recent downloads:
      6,824
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      45
    • Last activity:
      2024-10-15

  • minimp3

    Audio

    Rust bindings for the minimp3 library.

    • Latest version:
      0.5.1
    • Downloads:
      1,249,916
    • Recent downloads:
      42,076
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      67
    • Last activity:
      2024-08-16

  • mod_player

    Audio

    A library for parsing and playing mod music files

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      6,404
    • Recent downloads:
      872
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      30
    • 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:
      46,857
    • Recent downloads:
      7,512
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      886
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-29

  • oddio

    Audio

    Lightweight game audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.7.4
    • Downloads:
      27,055
    • Recent downloads:
      4,002
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      154
    • Last activity:
      2023-10-15

  • portmidi

    Audio

    High-level PortMidi bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.3.0
    • Downloads:
      43,537
    • Recent downloads:
      4,365
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      79
    • Last activity:
      2023-07-13

  • rodio

    Audio

    Audio playback library

    • Latest version:
      0.20.1
    • Downloads:
      3,876,572
    • Recent downloads:
      428,302
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,948
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-11

  • sdl2

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

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.37.0
    • Downloads:
      2,224,116
    • Recent downloads:
      178,223
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,833
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-31

  • sdl3

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

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.14.22
    • Downloads:
      33,328
    • Recent downloads:
      19,274
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      161
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-07

  • sfxr

    Audio

    Reimplementation of DrPetter's 'sfxr' sound effect generator

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      8,882
    • Recent downloads:
      941
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      53
    • Last activity:
      2023-05-04

  • soloud

    Audio

    Rust bindings for the soloud audio engine

    • Latest version:
      1.1.0
    • Downloads:
      85,101
    • Recent downloads:
      8,082
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      58
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-01

  • usfx

    Audio

    Realtime procedurally generated sound effects

    • Latest version:
      0.1.5
    • Downloads:
      15,397
    • Recent downloads:
      1,373
    • License:
      AGPL-3.0-or-later
    • Stars:
      55
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-19

  • vorbis

    Audio

    High-level bindings for the official libvorbis library.

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      92,887
    • Recent downloads:
      4,814
    • 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:
      82,989
    • Recent downloads:
      23,805
    • 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:
      27,416
    • Recent downloads:
      7,576
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      41
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-24

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:
      115,322
    • Recent downloads:
      11,465
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      81
    • Last activity:
      2020-03-01

  • rsoundio

    Audio

    libsoundio bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.1.6
    • Downloads:
      10,768
    • Recent downloads:
      1,037
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      49
    • Last activity:
      2020-12-13

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