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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:
      26,004
    • Recent downloads:
      621
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      91
    • 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:
      16,542
    • Recent downloads:
      1,964
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      212
    • Last activity:
      2026-08-20

  • audir

    Audio

    Low-level audio library

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      1,886
    • Recent downloads:
      8
    • 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:
      5,358,394
    • Recent downloads:
      1,788,125
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      330
    • Last activity:
      2025-12-03

  • cpal

    Audio

    Low-level cross-platform audio I/O library.

    • Latest version:
      0.18.2
    • Downloads:
      25,458,366
    • Recent downloads:
      8,936,043
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      3,986
    • Last activity:
      2026-10-20

  • ears

    Audio

    Easy Rust API to play audio using OpenAL

    • Latest version:
      0.8.0
    • Downloads:
      79,473
    • Recent downloads:
      1,347
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      22
    • Last activity:
      2021-09-22

  • firewheel

    Audio

    An open source audio graph engine for games and other applications

    • Latest version:
      0.14.0
    • Downloads:
      61,385
    • Recent downloads:
      22,372
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      318
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-05

  • fmod

    Audio

    A rust binding for the FMOD library

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      54,689
    • Recent downloads:
      247
    • License:
      non-standard
    • Stars:
      67
    • Last activity:
      2022-07-22

  • fyrox-sound

    Audio

    Sound library for games.

    • Latest version:
      1.0.1
    • Downloads:
      83,019
    • Recent downloads:
      5,689
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      9,613
    • Last activity:
      2026-10-22

  • gme

    Audio

    Rust bindings for Game Music Emu

    • Latest version:
      0.1.2
    • Downloads:
      5,296
    • Recent downloads:
      12
    • 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:
      21,316,971
    • Recent downloads:
      6,269,517
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      637
    • Last activity:
      2026-08-09

  • kira

    Audio

    Expressive audio library for games

    • Latest version:
      0.12.5
    • Downloads:
      1,053,029
    • Recent downloads:
      223,083
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      1,072
    • 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:
      39
    • Last activity:
      2026-04-06

  • lewton

    Audio

    Pure Rust vorbis decoder

    • Latest version:
      0.10.2
    • Downloads:
      10,129,228
    • Recent downloads:
      2,584,864
    • 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:
      51,576
    • Recent downloads:
      966
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      52
    • Last activity:
      2024-10-15

  • maudio

    Audio

    Safe Rust bindings to miniaudio, with a playback engine and lower-level APIs for audio devices, decoding, and custom processing.

    • Latest version:
      0.1.15
    • Downloads:
      21,061
    • Recent downloads:
      20,333
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      8
    • Last activity:
      2026-09-28

  • minimp3

    Audio

    Rust bindings with a high-level wrapper for the minimp3 C library.

    • Latest version:
      0.6.1
    • Downloads:
      1,824,622
    • Recent downloads:
      153,067
    • 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:
      14,088
    • Recent downloads:
      5,515
    • 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:
      78,464
    • Recent downloads:
      6,608
    • 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:
      60,946
    • Recent downloads:
      7,924
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      165
    • Last activity:
      2023-10-15

  • portmidi

    Audio

    High-level PortMidi bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.3.0
    • Downloads:
      58,801
    • Recent downloads:
      2,614
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      79
    • Last activity:
      2023-07-13

  • rodio

    Audio

    Audio playback and recording library

    • Latest version:
      0.23.0
    • Downloads:
      13,065,827
    • Recent downloads:
      3,677,946
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      2,494
    • Last activity:
      2026-10-11

  • sdl2

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

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.38.0
    • Downloads:
      5,595,066
    • Recent downloads:
      812,599
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,953
    • 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:
      252,852
    • Recent downloads:
      86,551
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      392
    • Last activity:
      2026-10-20

  • sfxr

    Audio

    Reimplementation of DrPetter's 'sfxr' sound effect generator

    • Latest version:
      0.1.4
    • Downloads:
      11,804
    • Recent downloads:
      418
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      53
    • Last activity:
      2023-05-04

  • soloud

    Audio

    Rust bindings for the soloud audio engine

    • Latest version:
      1.1.1
    • Downloads:
      118,760
    • Recent downloads:
      4,117
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      61
    • Last activity:
      2026-05-03

  • usfx

    Audio

    Realtime procedurally generated sound effects

    • Latest version:
      0.1.5
    • Downloads:
      19,114
    • Recent downloads:
      202
    • License:
      AGPL-3.0-or-later

  • vorbis

    Audio

    High-level bindings for the official libvorbis library.

    • Latest version:
      0.1.0
    • Downloads:
      107,891
    • Recent downloads:
      1,626
    • 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:
      250,569
    • Recent downloads:
      77,815
    • License:
      BSD-3-Clause
    • Stars:
      21
    • Last activity:
      2026-10-22

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:
      153,866
    • Recent downloads:
      1,698
    • License:
      MIT/Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      82
    • Last activity:
      2020-03-01

  • rsoundio

    Audio

    libsoundio bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.1.6
    • Downloads:
      13,092
    • Recent downloads:
      44
    • 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:
      68,058
    • Recent downloads:
      9,805
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      48
    • Last activity:
      2026-01-10

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