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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:
      23,054
    • Recent downloads:
      1,834
    • 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:
      0.8.1
    • Downloads:
      9,777
    • Recent downloads:
      3,808
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      148
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-25

  • audir

    Audio

    Low-level audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      1,777
    • Recent downloads:
      217
    • 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:
      2,084,908
    • Recent downloads:
      204,616
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      308
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-06

  • cpal

    Audio

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

    • Latest version:
      0.16.0
    • Downloads:
      8,073,070
    • Recent downloads:
      1,060,502
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      3,277
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-28

  • ears

    Audio

    Easy Rust API to play audio using OpenAL

    • Latest version:
      0.8.0
    • Downloads:
      72,333
    • Recent downloads:
      3,329
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      22
    • Last activity:
      2021-09-22

  • fmod

    Audio

    A rust binding for the FMOD library

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      52,840
    • Recent downloads:
      2,725
    • License:
      non-standard
    • Stars:
      66
    • Last activity:
      2022-07-22

  • fyrox-sound

    Audio

    Sound library for games.

    • Latest version:
      0.36.2
    • Downloads:
      55,940
    • Recent downloads:
      7,110
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      8,507
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-28

  • gme

    Audio

    Rust bindings for Game Music Emu

    • Latest version:
      0.1.2
    • Downloads:
      5,036
    • Recent downloads:
      524
    • 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:
      7,063,241
    • Recent downloads:
      786,427
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      560
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-17

  • kira

    Audio

    Expressive audio library for games

    • Latest version:
      0.10.8
    • Downloads:
      515,304
    • Recent downloads:
      68,257
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      967
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-26

  • lewton

    Audio

    Pure Rust vorbis decoder

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      4,357,342
    • Recent downloads:
      473,891
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      280
    • Last activity:
      2023-03-02

  • libfmod

    Audio

    A library wrapper for integrating FMOD Engine in Rust applications.

    • Latest version:
      2.222.6
    • Downloads:
      45,835
    • Recent downloads:
      5,145
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      49
    • 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:
      1,346,415
    • Recent downloads:
      70,100
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      72
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-15

  • mod_player

    Audio

    A library for parsing and playing mod music files

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      8,126
    • Recent downloads:
      831
    • 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:
      59,531
    • Recent downloads:
      6,552
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      935
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-18

  • oddio

    Audio

    Lightweight game audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.7.4
    • Downloads:
      33,739
    • Recent downloads:
      3,887
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      156
    • Last activity:
      2023-10-15

  • portmidi

    Audio

    High-level PortMidi bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.3.0
    • Downloads:
      50,635
    • Recent downloads:
      3,813
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      78
    • Last activity:
      2023-07-13

  • rodio

    Audio

    Audio playback library

    • Latest version:
      0.21.1
    • Downloads:
      4,933,194
    • Recent downloads:
      705,446
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,105
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-28

  • sdl2

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

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.38.0
    • Downloads:
      2,624,277
    • Recent downloads:
      248,890
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,912
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-12

  • sdl3

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

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.15.1
    • Downloads:
      79,836
    • Recent downloads:
      28,260
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      254
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-23

  • sfxr

    Audio

    Reimplementation of DrPetter's 'sfxr' sound effect generator

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      10,525
    • Recent downloads:
      863
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      54
    • Last activity:
      2023-05-04

  • soloud

    Audio

    Rust bindings for the soloud audio engine

    • Latest version:
      1.1.1
    • Downloads:
      99,553
    • Recent downloads:
      8,004
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      60
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-12

  • usfx

    Audio

    Realtime procedurally generated sound effects

    • Latest version:
      0.1.5
    • Downloads:
      17,794
    • Recent downloads:
      1,257
    • License:
      AGPL-3.0-or-later
    • Stars:
      55
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-18

  • vorbis

    Audio

    High-level bindings for the official libvorbis library.

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      101,036
    • Recent downloads:
      4,439
    • 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:
      93,803
    • Recent downloads:
      5,219
    • License:
      BSD-3-Clause
    • Stars:
      17
    • Last activity:
      2025-09-23

  • wavers

    Audio

    A library for reading and writing wav files.

    • Latest version:
      1.5.1
    • Downloads:
      39,943
    • Recent downloads:
      6,464
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      47
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-06

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:
      134,513
    • Recent downloads:
      8,649
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      82
    • Last activity:
      2020-03-01

  • rsoundio

    Audio

    libsoundio bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.1.6
    • Downloads:
      12,620
    • Recent downloads:
      961
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      49
    • Last activity:
      2020-12-13

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