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The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ears
Posts with mentions or reviews of ears.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning ears yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
openal-rs
Posts with mentions or reviews of openal-rs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-04.
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allen 0.2.0 released: modern OpenAL bindings
A while back I was trying to use OpenAL for a game project and found frustration with the lack of usable bindings. There was of course [alto](https://https://crates.io/crates/alto), but it’s been unmaintained for about 3 years and was on it’s way out the door due to dependency on parking_lot. I just recently renovated this bindings crate I made and (hopefully) made it safer. Not sure how well it actually works outside my own use case. Still new to actually publishing crates. Enjoy!
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What audio library to use?
That may work, but I haven't tried it since its LGPL licence. I'm using the alto crate and now that I've checked its repository is archived https://github.com/jpernst/alto
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ears and openal-rs you can also consider the following projects:
rust-portaudio - PortAudio bindings and wrappers for Rust.
rodio - Rust audio playback library
rust-vst2 - VST 2.4 API implementation in rust. Create plugins or hosts.
minimp3-rs - minimp3 rust bindings + wrapper
rust-fmod - A rust binding for the FMOD library
portmidi-rs - High-level PortMidi bindings and wrappers for Rust
swyh-rs - Stream What You Hear written in rust, inspired by SWYH.
cpal - Cross-platform audio I/O library in pure Rust