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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:
      24,604
    • Recent downloads:
      593
    • 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:
      0.13.0
    • Downloads:
      13,189
    • Recent downloads:
      1,004
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      180
    • Last activity:
      2026-03-15

  • audir

    Audio

    Low-level audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      1,871
    • Recent downloads:
      15
    • 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:
      2,729,733
    • Recent downloads:
      446,856
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      321
    • Last activity:
      2025-12-03

  • cpal

    Audio

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

    • Latest version:
      0.17.3
    • Downloads:
      11,237,287
    • Recent downloads:
      2,025,771
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      3,596
    • Last activity:
      2026-03-15

  • ears

    Audio

    Easy Rust API to play audio using OpenAL

    • Latest version:
      0.8.0
    • Downloads:
      75,829
    • Recent downloads:
      1,607
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      22
    • Last activity:
      2021-09-22

  • fmod

    Audio

    A rust binding for the FMOD library

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      54,075
    • Recent downloads:
      332
    • License:
      non-standard
    • Stars:
      66
    • Last activity:
      2022-07-22

  • fyrox-sound

    Audio

    Sound library for games.

    • Latest version:
      0.36.2
    • Downloads:
      64,099
    • Recent downloads:
      4,043
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      8,947
    • Last activity:
      2026-03-15

  • gme

    Audio

    Rust bindings for Game Music Emu

    • Latest version:
      0.1.2
    • Downloads:
      5,260
    • Recent downloads:
      41
    • License:
      MIT AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
    • Stars:
      10
    • Last activity:
      2025-10-26

  • hound

    Audio

    A wav encoding and decoding library

    • Latest version:
      3.5.1
    • Downloads:
      9,996,636
    • Recent downloads:
      2,085,516
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      601
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-08

  • kira

    Audio

    Expressive audio library for games

    • Latest version:
      0.12.0
    • Downloads:
      662,629
    • Recent downloads:
      83,303
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,002
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-18

  • lewton

    Audio

    Pure Rust vorbis decoder

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      5,736,967
    • Recent downloads:
      896,921
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      286
    • Last activity:
      2023-03-02

  • libfmod

    Audio

    A library wrapper for integrating FMOD Engine in Rust applications.

    • Latest version:
      2.222.6
    • Downloads:
      48,972
    • Recent downloads:
      1,199
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      51
    • 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:
      1,513,497
    • Recent downloads:
      88,159
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      75
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-03

  • mod_player

    Audio

    A library for parsing and playing mod music files

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      8,381
    • Recent downloads:
      58
    • 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:
      0.14.0
    • Downloads:
      66,620
    • Recent downloads:
      3,467
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      964
    • Last activity:
      2026-01-17

  • oddio

    Audio

    Lightweight game audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.7.4
    • Downloads:
      47,513
    • Recent downloads:
      8,924
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      161
    • Last activity:
      2023-10-15

  • portmidi

    Audio

    High-level PortMidi bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.3.0
    • Downloads:
      53,966
    • Recent downloads:
      1,411
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      79
    • Last activity:
      2023-07-13

  • rodio

    Audio

    Audio playback and recording library

    • Latest version:
      0.22.2
    • Downloads:
      6,828,171
    • Recent downloads:
      1,199,293
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,286
    • Last activity:
      2026-03-11

  • sdl2

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

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.38.0
    • Downloads:
      3,609,908
    • Recent downloads:
      696,125
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,939
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-19

  • sdl3

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

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.17.3
    • Downloads:
      116,296
    • Recent downloads:
      17,559
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      319
    • Last activity:
      2026-03-11

  • sfxr

    Audio

    Reimplementation of DrPetter's 'sfxr' sound effect generator

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      11,055
    • Recent downloads:
      193
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      54
    • Last activity:
      2023-05-04

  • soloud

    Audio

    Rust bindings for the soloud audio engine

    • Latest version:
      1.1.1
    • Downloads:
      108,223
    • Recent downloads:
      4,041
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      60
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-12

  • usfx

    Audio

    Realtime procedurally generated sound effects

    • Latest version:
      0.1.5
    • Downloads:
      18,541
    • Recent downloads:
      265
    • License:
      AGPL-3.0-or-later
    • Stars:
      56
    • Last activity:
      2026-03-12

  • vorbis

    Audio

    High-level bindings for the official libvorbis library.

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      104,445
    • Recent downloads:
      1,343
    • 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:
      118,125
    • Recent downloads:
      11,382
    • License:
      BSD-3-Clause
    • Stars:
      19
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-09

  • wavers

    Audio

    A library for reading and writing wav files.

    • Latest version:
      1.5.1
    • Downloads:
      47,939
    • Recent downloads:
      3,771
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      48
    • Last activity:
      2026-01-10

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:
      139,326
    • Recent downloads:
      1,332
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      82
    • Last activity:
      2020-03-01

  • rsoundio

    Audio

    libsoundio bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.1.6
    • Downloads:
      12,950
    • Recent downloads:
      69
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      49
    • Last activity:
      2020-12-13

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