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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:
      25,638
    • Recent downloads:
      505
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      92
    • 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:
      0.16.0
    • Downloads:
      15,490
    • Recent downloads:
      1,537
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      205
    • Last activity:
      2026-08-20

  • audir

    Audio

    Low-level audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      1,885
    • Recent downloads:
      10
    • 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:
      4,299,177
    • Recent downloads:
      1,012,615
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      329
    • Last activity:
      2025-12-03

  • cpal

    Audio

    Low-level cross-platform audio I/O library.

    • Latest version:
      0.18.2
    • Downloads:
      20,167,271
    • Recent downloads:
      5,608,970
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      3,930
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-11

  • ears

    Audio

    Easy Rust API to play audio using OpenAL

    • Latest version:
      0.8.0
    • Downloads:
      78,918
    • Recent downloads:
      1,528
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      22
    • Last activity:
      2021-09-22

  • fmod

    Audio

    A rust binding for the FMOD library

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      54,607
    • Recent downloads:
      304
    • License:
      non-standard
    • Stars:
      67
    • Last activity:
      2022-07-22

  • fyrox-sound

    Audio

    Sound library for games.

    • Latest version:
      1.0.1
    • Downloads:
      80,494
    • Recent downloads:
      6,945
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      9,550
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-12

  • gme

    Audio

    Rust bindings for Game Music Emu

    • Latest version:
      0.1.2
    • Downloads:
      5,290
    • Recent downloads:
      19
    • License:
      MIT AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
    • Stars:
      11
    • Last activity:
      2026-06-08

  • hound

    Audio

    A wav encoding and decoding library

    • Latest version:
      3.5.1
    • Downloads:
      18,056,217
    • Recent downloads:
      4,921,966
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      635
    • Last activity:
      2026-08-09

  • kira

    Audio

    Expressive audio library for games

    • Latest version:
      0.12.4
    • Downloads:
      913,594
    • Recent downloads:
      143,344
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,060
    • Last activity:
      2026-08-27

  • helmer

    Game Engines · 2D Rendering · 3D Rendering · Audio · UI · Tools

    a powerful, scalable, robust foundation for creation, in rust

    • License:
      MIT License
    • Stars:
      38
    • Last activity:
      2026-04-06

  • lewton

    Audio

    Pure Rust vorbis decoder

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      8,657,829
    • Recent downloads:
      1,726,845
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      291
    • Last activity:
      2023-03-02

  • libfmod

    Audio

    A library wrapper for integrating FMOD Engine in Rust applications.

    • Latest version:
      2.222.6
    • Downloads:
      51,220
    • Recent downloads:
      1,091
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      52
    • 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:
      1,750,852
    • Recent downloads:
      128,590
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      76
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-03

  • mod_player

    Audio

    A library for parsing and playing mod music files

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      11,910
    • Recent downloads:
      3,407
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      32
    • 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:
      75,307
    • Recent downloads:
      4,837
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      970
    • Last activity:
      2026-01-17

  • oddio

    Audio

    Lightweight game audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.7.4
    • Downloads:
      55,407
    • Recent downloads:
      4,684
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      166
    • Last activity:
      2023-10-15

  • portmidi

    Audio

    High-level PortMidi bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.3.0
    • Downloads:
      56,913
    • Recent downloads:
      1,256
    • 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:
      11,057,202
    • Recent downloads:
      2,579,199
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,458
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-07

  • sdl2

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

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.38.0
    • Downloads:
      5,223,587
    • Recent downloads:
      729,088
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,951
    • Last activity:
      2026-03-22

  • sdl3

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

    Bindings to SDL3, a cross-platform library to abstract the platform-specific details for building applications.

    • Latest version:
      0.20.0
    • Downloads:
      202,335
    • Recent downloads:
      54,032
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      379
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-08

  • sfxr

    Audio

    Reimplementation of DrPetter's 'sfxr' sound effect generator

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      11,643
    • Recent downloads:
      375
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      54
    • Last activity:
      2023-05-04

  • soloud

    Audio

    Rust bindings for the soloud audio engine

    • Latest version:
      1.1.1
    • Downloads:
      117,215
    • Recent downloads:
      4,462
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      61
    • Last activity:
      2026-05-03

  • usfx

    Audio

    Realtime procedurally generated sound effects

    • Latest version:
      0.1.5
    • Downloads:
      19,031
    • Recent downloads:
      241
    • License:
      AGPL-3.0-or-later

  • vorbis

    Audio

    High-level bindings for the official libvorbis library.

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      107,014
    • Recent downloads:
      1,285
    • 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:
      0.5.6
    • Downloads:
      207,789
    • Recent downloads:
      55,200
    • License:
      BSD-3-Clause
    • Stars:
      21
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-05

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:
      152,892
    • Recent downloads:
      6,938
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      82
    • Last activity:
      2020-03-01

  • rsoundio

    Audio

    libsoundio bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.1.6
    • Downloads:
      13,074
    • Recent downloads:
      65
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      49
    • Last activity:
      2020-12-13

  • wavers

    Audio

    A library for reading and writing wav files.

    • Latest version:
      1.5.1
    • Downloads:
      62,614
    • Recent downloads:
      7,005
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      48
    • Last activity:
      2026-01-10

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