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Wrappers for FMOD, OpenAL, MIDI and similar, and higher level APIs.

ambisonic

Audio

Compose and play 3D audio.
- Latest version:
  0.4.1
- Downloads:
  18,619
- Recent downloads:
  2,285
- License:
  MIT/Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  85
- Last activity:
  2023-01-04
audir

Audio

Low-level audio library
- Latest version:
  0.1.0
- Downloads:
  1,292
- Recent downloads:
  195
- 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:
  1,679,839
- Recent downloads:
  161,191
- License:
  Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  292
- Last activity:
  2024-06-10
cpal

Audio

Low-level cross-platform audio I/O library in pure Rust.
- Latest version:
  0.15.3
- Downloads:
  6,142,941
- Recent downloads:
  722,263
- License:
  Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  2,956
- Last activity:
  2025-02-16
ears

Audio

Easy Rust API to play audio using OpenAL
- Latest version:
  0.8.0
- Downloads:
  64,900
- Recent downloads:
  3,665
- License:
  MIT
- Stars:
  22
- Last activity:
  2021-09-22
fmod

Audio

A rust binding for the FMOD library
- Latest version:
  0.10.2
- Downloads:
  45,496
- Recent downloads:
  3,752
- License:
  non-standard
- Stars:
  63
- Last activity:
  2022-07-22
fyrox-sound

Audio

Sound library for games.
- Latest version:
  0.36.2
- Downloads:
  41,629
- Recent downloads:
  7,039
- License:
  MIT
- Stars:
  8,085
- Last activity:
  2025-03-09
gme

Audio

Rust bindings for Game Music Emu
- Latest version:
  0.1.2
- Downloads:
  3,799
- Recent downloads:
  611
- 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:
  5,401,691
- Recent downloads:
  709,892
- License:
  Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  512
- Last activity:
  2024-08-18
kira

Audio

Expressive audio library for games
- Latest version:
  0.10.4
- Downloads:
  383,700
- Recent downloads:
  54,751
- License:
  MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  915
- Last activity:
  2025-03-05
lewton

Audio

Pure Rust vorbis decoder
- Latest version:
  0.10.2
- Downloads:
  3,497,452
- Recent downloads:
  304,489
- License:
  MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  269
- Last activity:
  2023-03-02
libfmod

Audio

A library wrapper for integrating FMOD Engine in Rust applications.
- Latest version:
  2.222.6
- Downloads:
  32,741
- Recent downloads:
  6,617
- License:
  MIT
- Stars:
  43
- Last activity:
  2024-10-15
minimp3

Audio

Rust bindings for the minimp3 library.
- Latest version:
  0.5.1
- Downloads:
  1,235,851
- Recent downloads:
  40,199
- 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:
  6,056
- Recent downloads:
  1,157
- 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:
  0.12.1
- Downloads:
  43,751
- Recent downloads:
  6,712
- License:
  MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  871
- Last activity:
  2025-02-12
oddio

Audio

Lightweight game audio library
- Latest version:
  0.7.4
- Downloads:
  25,595
- Recent downloads:
  3,974
- License:
  MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  153
- Last activity:
  2023-10-15
portmidi

Audio

High-level PortMidi bindings for Rust
- Latest version:
  0.3.0
- Downloads:
  42,038
- Recent downloads:
  4,355
- License:
  MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  79
- Last activity:
  2023-07-13
rodio

Audio

Audio playback library
- Latest version:
  0.20.1
- Downloads:
  3,711,953
- Recent downloads:
  397,621
- License:
  MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  1,912
- Last activity:
  2025-03-07
sdl2

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

SDL2 bindings for Rust
- Latest version:
  0.37.0
- Downloads:
  2,156,690
- Recent downloads:
  160,609
- License:
  MIT
- Stars:
  2,817
- Last activity:
  2025-03-08
sdl3

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

Cross-platform multimedia
- Latest version:
  0.14.15
- Downloads:
  25,386
- Recent downloads:
  15,446
- License:
  MIT
- Stars:
  128
- Last activity:
  2025-03-08
sfxr

Audio

Reimplementation of DrPetter's 'sfxr' sound effect generator
- Latest version:
  0.1.4
- Downloads:
  8,534
- Recent downloads:
  878
- License:
  MIT
- Stars:
  52
- Last activity:
  2023-05-04
soloud

Audio

Rust bindings for the soloud audio engine
- Latest version:
  1.0.5
- Downloads:
  82,019
- Recent downloads:
  7,994
- License:
  MIT
- Stars:
  58
- Last activity:
  2024-04-18
usfx

Audio

Realtime procedurally generated sound effects
- Latest version:
  0.1.5
- Downloads:
  14,859
- Recent downloads:
  1,330
- License:
  AGPL-3.0-or-later
- Stars:
  55
- Last activity:
  2025-01-27
vorbis

Audio

High-level bindings for the official libvorbis library.
- Latest version:
  0.1.0
- Downloads:
  91,269
- Recent downloads:
  4,816
- 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:
  74,441
- Recent downloads:
  26,271
- License:
  BSD-3-Clause
- Stars:
  17
- Last activity:
  2025-03-07

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:
  110,642
- Recent downloads:
  10,141
- License:
  MIT/Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  81
- Last activity:
  2020-03-01
rsoundio

Audio

libsoundio bindings for Rust
- Latest version:
  0.1.6
- Downloads:
  10,384
- Recent downloads:
  1,021
- License:
  MIT/Apache-2.0
- Stars:
  49
- Last activity:
  2020-12-13

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