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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:
      25,730
    • Recent downloads:
      453
    • 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:
      15,712
    • Recent downloads:
      1,603
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      208
    • Last activity:
      2026-08-20

  • audir

    Audio

    Low-level audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      1,886
    • 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:
      4,825,054
    • Recent downloads:
      1,429,986
    • 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:
      21,921,346
    • Recent downloads:
      6,631,541
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      3,949
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-20

  • ears

    Audio

    Easy Rust API to play audio using OpenAL

    • Latest version:
      0.8.0
    • Downloads:
      79,202
    • Recent downloads:
      1,408
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      22
    • Last activity:
      2021-09-22

  • fmod

    Audio

    A rust binding for the FMOD library

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      54,641
    • Recent downloads:
      283
    • License:
      non-standard
    • Stars:
      67
    • Last activity:
      2022-07-22

  • fyrox-sound

    Audio

    Sound library for games.

    • Latest version:
      1.0.1
    • Downloads:
      81,309
    • Recent downloads:
      6,089
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      9,568
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-27

  • gme

    Audio

    Rust bindings for Game Music Emu

    • Latest version:
      0.1.2
    • Downloads:
      5,294
    • Recent downloads:
      17
    • 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:
      19,299,610
    • Recent downloads:
      5,376,619
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      637
    • Last activity:
      2026-08-09

  • kira

    Audio

    Expressive audio library for games

    • Latest version:
      0.12.5
    • Downloads:
      938,442
    • Recent downloads:
      143,516
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,063
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-26

  • 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:
      9,295,348
    • Recent downloads:
      2,110,890
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      292
    • Last activity:
      2023-03-02

  • libfmod

    Audio

    A library wrapper for integrating FMOD Engine in Rust applications.

    • Latest version:
      2.222.6
    • Downloads:
      51,363
    • Recent downloads:
      1,046
    • 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:
      1,783,662
    • Recent downloads:
      140,455
    • 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:
      11,930
    • Recent downloads:
      3,399
    • 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:
      76,647
    • Recent downloads:
      5,657
    • 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:
      56,244
    • Recent downloads:
      3,924
    • 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:
      58,045
    • Recent downloads:
      2,162
    • 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:
      11,848,150
    • Recent downloads:
      2,979,135
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,475
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-27

  • sdl2

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

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.38.0
    • Downloads:
      5,365,661
    • Recent downloads:
      742,436
    • 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:
      213,930
    • Recent downloads:
      58,427
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      384
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-23

  • sfxr

    Audio

    Reimplementation of DrPetter's 'sfxr' sound effect generator

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      11,677
    • Recent downloads:
      350
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      54
    • Last activity:
      2023-05-04

  • soloud

    Audio

    Rust bindings for the soloud audio engine

    • Latest version:
      1.1.1
    • Downloads:
      117,755
    • Recent downloads:
      4,329
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      61
    • Last activity:
      2026-05-03

  • usfx

    Audio

    Realtime procedurally generated sound effects

    • Latest version:
      0.1.5
    • Downloads:
      19,066
    • Recent downloads:
      218
    • License:
      AGPL-3.0-or-later

  • vorbis

    Audio

    High-level bindings for the official libvorbis library.

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      107,301
    • Recent downloads:
      1,339
    • 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:
      219,877
    • Recent downloads:
      62,661
    • License:
      BSD-3-Clause
    • Stars:
      21
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-27

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:
      153,219
    • Recent downloads:
      1,514
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      82
    • Last activity:
      2020-03-01

  • rsoundio

    Audio

    libsoundio bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.1.6
    • Downloads:
      13,081
    • Recent downloads:
      56
    • 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:
      64,916
    • Recent downloads:
      7,909
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      48
    • Last activity:
      2026-01-10

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