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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:
      24,358
    • Recent downloads:
      620
    • 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:
      0.11.0
    • Downloads:
      12,704
    • Recent downloads:
      762
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      163
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-02

  • audir

    Audio

    Low-level audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      1,864
    • Recent downloads:
      9
    • 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:
      2,487,869
    • Recent downloads:
      319,081
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      320
    • Last activity:
      2025-12-03

  • cpal

    Audio

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

    • Latest version:
      0.17.1
    • Downloads:
      10,106,476
    • Recent downloads:
      1,537,530
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      3,501
    • Last activity:
      2026-01-29

  • ears

    Audio

    Easy Rust API to play audio using OpenAL

    • Latest version:
      0.8.0
    • Downloads:
      75,147
    • Recent downloads:
      1,732
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      22
    • Last activity:
      2021-09-22

  • fmod

    Audio

    A rust binding for the FMOD library

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      53,982
    • Recent downloads:
      342
    • License:
      non-standard
    • Stars:
      66
    • Last activity:
      2022-07-22

  • fyrox-sound

    Audio

    Sound library for games.

    • Latest version:
      0.36.2
    • Downloads:
      61,852
    • Recent downloads:
      3,352
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      8,843
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-02

  • gme

    Audio

    Rust bindings for Game Music Emu

    • Latest version:
      0.1.2
    • Downloads:
      5,243
    • Recent downloads:
      30
    • License:
      MIT AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
    • Stars:
      10
    • Last activity:
      2025-10-26

  • hound

    Audio

    A wav encoding and decoding library

    • Latest version:
      3.5.1
    • Downloads:
      8,621,041
    • Recent downloads:
      1,188,614
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      586
    • Last activity:
      2025-12-03

  • kira

    Audio

    Expressive audio library for games

    • Latest version:
      0.11.0
    • Downloads:
      621,152
    • Recent downloads:
      76,903
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      990
    • Last activity:
      2026-01-04

  • lewton

    Audio

    Pure Rust vorbis decoder

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      5,244,750
    • Recent downloads:
      663,406
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      285
    • Last activity:
      2023-03-02

  • libfmod

    Audio

    A library wrapper for integrating FMOD Engine in Rust applications.

    • Latest version:
      2.222.6
    • Downloads:
      48,476
    • Recent downloads:
      1,169
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      51
    • 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:
      1,470,391
    • Recent downloads:
      86,728
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      74
    • Last activity:
      2025-08-15

  • mod_player

    Audio

    A library for parsing and playing mod music files

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      8,357
    • Recent downloads:
      39
    • 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:
      0.14.0
    • Downloads:
      65,102
    • Recent downloads:
      3,567
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      957
    • Last activity:
      2026-01-17

  • oddio

    Audio

    Lightweight game audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.7.4
    • Downloads:
      42,227
    • Recent downloads:
      6,509
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      161
    • Last activity:
      2023-10-15

  • portmidi

    Audio

    High-level PortMidi bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.3.0
    • Downloads:
      53,426
    • Recent downloads:
      1,648
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      79
    • Last activity:
      2023-07-13

  • rodio

    Audio

    Audio playback library

    • Latest version:
      0.21.1
    • Downloads:
      6,186,828
    • Recent downloads:
      931,744
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,239
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-02

  • sdl2

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

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.38.0
    • Downloads:
      3,123,825
    • Recent downloads:
      367,671
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,932
    • Last activity:
      2025-12-31

  • sdl3

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

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.17.3
    • Downloads:
      108,512
    • Recent downloads:
      18,293
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      305
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-02

  • sfxr

    Audio

    Reimplementation of DrPetter's 'sfxr' sound effect generator

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      10,975
    • Recent downloads:
      190
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      54
    • Last activity:
      2023-05-04

  • soloud

    Audio

    Rust bindings for the soloud audio engine

    • Latest version:
      1.1.1
    • Downloads:
      106,375
    • Recent downloads:
      4,199
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      61
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-12

  • usfx

    Audio

    Realtime procedurally generated sound effects

    • Latest version:
      0.1.5
    • Downloads:
      18,425
    • Recent downloads:
      277
    • License:
      AGPL-3.0-or-later
    • Stars:
      56
    • Last activity:
      2025-12-20

  • vorbis

    Audio

    High-level bindings for the official libvorbis library.

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      103,840
    • Recent downloads:
      1,377
    • 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:
      113,432
    • Recent downloads:
      14,599
    • License:
      BSD-3-Clause
    • Stars:
      19
    • Last activity:
      2026-02-02

  • wavers

    Audio

    A library for reading and writing wav files.

    • Latest version:
      1.5.1
    • Downloads:
      46,271
    • Recent downloads:
      4,142
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      48
    • Last activity:
      2026-01-10

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:
      138,705
    • Recent downloads:
      1,293
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      82
    • Last activity:
      2020-03-01

  • rsoundio

    Audio

    libsoundio bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.1.6
    • Downloads:
      12,927
    • Recent downloads:
      71
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      49
    • Last activity:
      2020-12-13

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