Symphonia
A pure Rust library for demuxing media formats, reading metadata tags, and decoding audio codecs.
What is Symphonia?
Symphonia is a pure Rust audio decoding and media demuxing library designed for multimedia applications. It provides a unified API to handle a wide range of audio formats and codecs, enabling developers to build robust audio processing tools without relying on external C libraries.
Rust developers building multimedia applications, audio processing tools, or media players that require safe, performant, and dependency-light audio decoding and demuxing.
Developers choose Symphonia for its combination of 100% safe Rust, minimal dependencies, performance comparable to C-based implementations like FFmpeg, and a consistent API that supports a wide variety of audio formats and codecs through modular feature flags.
Overview
Pure Rust multimedia format demuxing, tag reading, and audio decoding library
Use Cases
Best For
- Building audio players or media applications in Rust that require support for multiple formats like MP3, FLAC, AAC, and Vorbis.
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