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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:
      21,948
    • Recent downloads:
      2,045
    • 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:
      0.7.1
    • Downloads:
      7,238
    • Recent downloads:
      3,715
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      145
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-05

  • audir

    Audio

    Low-level audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      1,644
    • Recent downloads:
      226
    • 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:
      1,942,781
    • Recent downloads:
      161,101
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      303
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-06

  • cpal

    Audio

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

    • Latest version:
      0.16.0
    • Downloads:
      7,331,530
    • Recent downloads:
      754,780
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      3,187
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-30

  • ears

    Audio

    Easy Rust API to play audio using OpenAL

    • Latest version:
      0.8.0
    • Downloads:
      70,300
    • Recent downloads:
      3,298
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      22
    • Last activity:
      2021-09-22

  • fmod

    Audio

    A rust binding for the FMOD library

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      51,188
    • Recent downloads:
      3,578
    • License:
      non-standard
    • Stars:
      64
    • Last activity:
      2022-07-22

  • fyrox-sound

    Audio

    Sound library for games.

    • Latest version:
      0.36.2
    • Downloads:
      51,080
    • Recent downloads:
      5,464
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      8,399
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-03

  • gme

    Audio

    Rust bindings for Game Music Emu

    • Latest version:
      0.1.2
    • Downloads:
      4,754
    • Recent downloads:
      588
    • 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:
      6,552,408
    • Recent downloads:
      700,757
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      548
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-17

  • kira

    Audio

    Expressive audio library for games

    • Latest version:
      0.10.8
    • Downloads:
      471,524
    • Recent downloads:
      52,958
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      954
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-18

  • lewton

    Audio

    Pure Rust vorbis decoder

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      4,009,068
    • Recent downloads:
      320,947
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      277
    • Last activity:
      2023-03-02

  • libfmod

    Audio

    A library wrapper for integrating FMOD Engine in Rust applications.

    • Latest version:
      2.222.6
    • Downloads:
      42,746
    • Recent downloads:
      6,317
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      47
    • Last activity:
      2024-10-15

  • minimp3

    Audio

    Rust bindings for the minimp3 library.

    • Latest version:
      0.5.1
    • Downloads:
      1,293,759
    • Recent downloads:
      33,916
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      68
    • Last activity:
      2024-08-16

  • mod_player

    Audio

    A library for parsing and playing mod music files

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      7,669
    • Recent downloads:
      1,079
    • 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:
      55,831
    • Recent downloads:
      7,217
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      925
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-29

  • oddio

    Audio

    Lightweight game audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.7.4
    • Downloads:
      31,373
    • Recent downloads:
      3,567
    • 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:
      48,287
    • Recent downloads:
      3,838
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      78
    • Last activity:
      2023-07-13

  • rodio

    Audio

    Audio playback library

    • Latest version:
      0.21.1
    • Downloads:
      4,412,180
    • Recent downloads:
      435,941
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,055
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-01

  • sdl2

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

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.38.0
    • Downloads:
      2,457,013
    • Recent downloads:
      186,864
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,882
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-12

  • sdl3

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

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.14.36
    • Downloads:
      60,898
    • Recent downloads:
      22,394
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      235
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-28

  • sfxr

    Audio

    Reimplementation of DrPetter's 'sfxr' sound effect generator

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      9,940
    • Recent downloads:
      867
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      54
    • Last activity:
      2023-05-04

  • soloud

    Audio

    Rust bindings for the soloud audio engine

    • Latest version:
      1.1.1
    • Downloads:
      94,262
    • Recent downloads:
      7,308
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      59
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-12

  • usfx

    Audio

    Realtime procedurally generated sound effects

    • Latest version:
      0.1.5
    • Downloads:
      16,986
    • Recent downloads:
      1,286
    • License:
      AGPL-3.0-or-later
    • Stars:
      55
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-25

  • vorbis

    Audio

    High-level bindings for the official libvorbis library.

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      98,189
    • Recent downloads:
      4,254
    • 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:
      90,547
    • Recent downloads:
      5,836
    • License:
      BSD-3-Clause
    • Stars:
      17
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-08

  • wavers

    Audio

    A library for reading and writing wav files.

    • Latest version:
      1.5.1
    • Downloads:
      36,071
    • Recent downloads:
      6,850
    • 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:
      129,263
    • Recent downloads:
      10,393
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      82
    • Last activity:
      2020-03-01

  • rsoundio

    Audio

    libsoundio bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.1.6
    • Downloads:
      12,070
    • Recent downloads:
      1,086
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      49
    • Last activity:
      2020-12-13

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