ears

A simple library to play sounds and music in Rust.

• Convenient and easy to understand interface over OpenAL.
• Supports a wide variety of audio formats via libsndfile.
• Advanced features like HRTF and spatialization for free.
• Perfect for game developers.

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Before you start

You need to install OpenAL and libsndfile on your system.

Linux (Debian and Ubuntu)

sudo apt install libopenal-dev libsndfile1-dev

Linux (Fedora):

sudo dnf install openal-soft-devel libsndfile-devel

Mac:

brew install openal-soft libsndfile

Windows:

Install MSYS2 according to the instructions. Be sure to use the default installation folder (i.e. C:\msys32 or C:\msys64), otherwise compiling won't work. Then, run the following in the MSYS2 shell:

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-libsndfile mingw-w64-x86_64-openal

Usage

Include ears in your Cargo.toml dependencies.

toml [dependencies] ears = "0.5.0"

Playing a sound effect while simultaneously streaming music off disk is as simple as it gets.

```rust extern crate ears; use ears::{Music, Sound, AudioController};

fn main() { let mut music = Music::new("your-music.ogg").unwrap(); music.play();

let mut sound = Sound::new("your-sound-effect.wav").unwrap();
sound.play();

while music.is_playing() || sound.is_playing() {};

} ```

Running examples

cargo run --example basic cargo run --example many_sounds cargo run --example music cargo run --example record cargo run --example simple_player cargo run --example threads cargo run --example direct_channel