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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:
      21,304
    • Recent downloads:
      2,062
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      89
    • 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:
      6,138
    • Recent downloads:
      5,288
    • 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:
      1,570
    • Recent downloads:
      219
    • 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:
      1,889,755
    • Recent downloads:
      154,354
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      302
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-06

  • cpal

    Audio

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

    • Latest version:
      0.16.0
    • Downloads:
      7,056,879
    • Recent downloads:
      670,826
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      3,146
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-07

  • ears

    Audio

    Easy Rust API to play audio using OpenAL

    • Latest version:
      0.8.0
    • Downloads:
      69,120
    • Recent downloads:
      3,135
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      22
    • Last activity:
      2021-09-22

  • fmod

    Audio

    A rust binding for the FMOD library

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      50,243
    • Recent downloads:
      3,804
    • License:
      non-standard
    • Stars:
      64
    • Last activity:
      2022-07-22

  • fyrox-sound

    Audio

    Sound library for games.

    • Latest version:
      0.36.2
    • Downloads:
      49,085
    • Recent downloads:
      5,514
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      8,346
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-06

  • gme

    Audio

    Rust bindings for Game Music Emu

    • Latest version:
      0.1.2
    • Downloads:
      4,543
    • Recent downloads:
      538
    • 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:
      6,312,248
    • Recent downloads:
      655,375
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      544
    • Last activity:
      2025-04-17

  • kira

    Audio

    Expressive audio library for games

    • Latest version:
      0.10.8
    • Downloads:
      449,368
    • Recent downloads:
      48,082
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      943
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-17

  • lewton

    Audio

    Pure Rust vorbis decoder

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      3,904,008
    • Recent downloads:
      301,849
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      275
    • Last activity:
      2023-03-02

  • libfmod

    Audio

    A library wrapper for integrating FMOD Engine in Rust applications.

    • Latest version:
      2.222.6
    • Downloads:
      40,901
    • Recent downloads:
      6,349
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      47
    • Last activity:
      2024-10-15

  • minimp3

    Audio

    Rust bindings for the minimp3 library.

    • Latest version:
      0.5.1
    • Downloads:
      1,277,907
    • Recent downloads:
      29,938
    • 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:
      7,338
    • Recent downloads:
      1,028
    • 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:
      53,308
    • Recent downloads:
      7,094
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      921
    • Last activity:
      2025-03-29

  • oddio

    Audio

    Lightweight game audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.7.4
    • Downloads:
      30,095
    • Recent downloads:
      3,363
    • 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:
      46,976
    • Recent downloads:
      3,752
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      78
    • Last activity:
      2023-07-13

  • rodio

    Audio

    Audio playback library

    • Latest version:
      0.20.1
    • Downloads:
      4,253,799
    • Recent downloads:
      402,987
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,016
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-05

  • sdl2

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

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.37.0
    • Downloads:
      2,385,021
    • Recent downloads:
      171,519
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,875
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-23

  • sdl3

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

    Cross-platform multimedia

    • Latest version:
      0.14.35
    • Downloads:
      52,654
    • Recent downloads:
      20,675
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      229
    • Last activity:
      2025-07-05

  • sfxr

    Audio

    Reimplementation of DrPetter's 'sfxr' sound effect generator

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      9,699
    • Recent downloads:
      890
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      54
    • Last activity:
      2023-05-04

  • soloud

    Audio

    Rust bindings for the soloud audio engine

    • Latest version:
      1.1.1
    • Downloads:
      91,865
    • Recent downloads:
      7,372
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      59
    • Last activity:
      2025-05-12

  • usfx

    Audio

    Realtime procedurally generated sound effects

    • Latest version:
      0.1.5
    • Downloads:
      16,612
    • Recent downloads:
      1,334
    • License:
      AGPL-3.0-or-later
    • Stars:
      55
    • Last activity:
      2025-06-26

  • vorbis

    Audio

    High-level bindings for the official libvorbis library.

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      96,845
    • Recent downloads:
      4,269
    • 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:
      88,800
    • Recent downloads:
      6,670
    • 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:
      33,850
    • Recent downloads:
      7,182
    • 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:
      126,316
    • Recent downloads:
      11,740
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      81
    • Last activity:
      2020-03-01

  • rsoundio

    Audio

    libsoundio bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.1.6
    • Downloads:
      11,733
    • Recent downloads:
      1,053
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      49
    • Last activity:
      2020-12-13

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