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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:
      20,605
    • Recent downloads:
      2,088
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      87
    • 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:
      0.6.4
    • Downloads:
      4,848
    • Recent downloads:
      4,848
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      146
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-18

  • audir

    Audio

    Low-level audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      1,499
    • Recent downloads:
      217
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      41
    • Last activity:
      2020-12-30

  • claxon

    Audio

    A FLAC decoding library

    • Latest version:
      0.4.3
    • Downloads:
      1,822,946
    • Recent downloads:
      152,722
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      300
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-06

  • cpal

    Audio

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

    • Latest version:
      0.15.3
    • Downloads:
      6,773,095
    • Recent downloads:
      677,537
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      3,086
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-23

  • ears

    Audio

    Easy Rust API to play audio using OpenAL

    • Latest version:
      0.8.0
    • Downloads:
      68,110
    • Recent downloads:
      3,380
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      23
    • Last activity:
      2021-09-22

  • fmod

    Audio

    A rust binding for the FMOD library

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      49,162
    • Recent downloads:
      3,909
    • License:
      non-standard
    • Stars:
      65
    • Last activity:
      2022-07-22

  • fyrox-sound

    Audio

    Sound library for games.

    • Latest version:
      0.36.2
    • Downloads:
      47,341
    • Recent downloads:
      6,115
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      8,277
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-01

  • gme

    Audio

    Rust bindings for Game Music Emu

    • Latest version:
      0.1.2
    • Downloads:
      4,350
    • Recent downloads:
      585
    • License:
      MIT AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
    • Stars:
      9
    • Last activity:
      2021-09-19

  • hound

    Audio

    A wav encoding and decoding library

    • Latest version:
      3.5.1
    • Downloads:
      6,047,841
    • Recent downloads:
      692,827
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      542
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-17

  • kira

    Audio

    Expressive audio library for games

    • Latest version:
      0.10.6
    • Downloads:
      431,776
    • Recent downloads:
      51,154
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      938
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-21

  • lewton

    Audio

    Pure Rust vorbis decoder

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      3,773,479
    • Recent downloads:
      295,815
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      276
    • Last activity:
      2023-03-02

  • libfmod

    Audio

    A library wrapper for integrating FMOD Engine in Rust applications.

    • Latest version:
      2.222.6
    • Downloads:
      39,050
    • Recent downloads:
      6,765
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      47
    • Last activity:
      2024-10-15

  • minimp3

    Audio

    Rust bindings for the minimp3 library.

    • Latest version:
      0.5.1
    • Downloads:
      1,266,753
    • Recent downloads:
      32,491
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      69
    • Last activity:
      2024-08-16

  • mod_player

    Audio

    A library for parsing and playing mod music files

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      7,003
    • Recent downloads:
      1,002
    • 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:
      51,005
    • Recent downloads:
      7,581
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      912
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-29

  • oddio

    Audio

    Lightweight game audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.7.4
    • Downloads:
      28,967
    • Recent downloads:
      3,617
    • 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:
      45,774
    • Recent downloads:
      3,934
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      80
    • Last activity:
      2023-07-13

  • rodio

    Audio

    Audio playback library

    • Latest version:
      0.20.1
    • Downloads:
      4,088,359
    • Recent downloads:
      400,838
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,990
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-01

  • sdl2

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

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.37.0
    • Downloads:
      2,316,324
    • Recent downloads:
      168,139
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,857
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-31

  • sdl3

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

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.14.27
    • Downloads:
      44,636
    • Recent downloads:
      20,424
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      203
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-18

  • sfxr

    Audio

    Reimplementation of DrPetter's 'sfxr' sound effect generator

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      9,408
    • Recent downloads:
      924
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      54
    • Last activity:
      2023-05-04

  • soloud

    Audio

    Rust bindings for the soloud audio engine

    • Latest version:
      1.1.1
    • Downloads:
      89,559
    • Recent downloads:
      7,918
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      60
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-12

  • usfx

    Audio

    Realtime procedurally generated sound effects

    • Latest version:
      0.1.5
    • Downloads:
      16,205
    • Recent downloads:
      1,470
    • License:
      AGPL-3.0-or-later
    • Stars:
      56
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-24

  • vorbis

    Audio

    High-level bindings for the official libvorbis library.

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      95,424
    • Recent downloads:
      4,432
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      16
    • 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:
      87,029
    • Recent downloads:
      14,385
    • 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:
      31,747
    • Recent downloads:
      8,470
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      45
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-22

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:
      122,795
    • Recent downloads:
      12,554
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      82
    • Last activity:
      2020-03-01

  • rsoundio

    Audio

    libsoundio bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.1.6
    • Downloads:
      11,399
    • Recent downloads:
      1,073
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      50
    • Last activity:
      2020-12-13

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