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symphonia

v0.5.5 Growing

Pure Rust media container and audio decoding library.

MPL-2.0 Edition 2018 MSRV 1.53

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 4d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (1.5K crates depend on it)

Security

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Downloads
5.1M
Dependents
1.5K
Releases
11
Size
12KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

817.5K downloads in the last 30 days (27.3K/day), up 94% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

1.5K crates depend on symphonia. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Single maintainer risk

symphonia has only 1 owner despite 1.5K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern โ€” consider the implications for long-term support.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 5+ years old, symphonia hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 12KB, symphonia is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include rodio, kira, spider_transformations, librespot-playback, mp3lame-encoder. When high-quality crates choose symphonia, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 19/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 17/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 15/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 11/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
17K/day avg+130%
010K20K30K40K50K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.5.4
51%
v0.5.5
33%
v0.5.3
9%
v0.5.2
4%
v0.5.1
3%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["adpcm", "flac", "mkv", "ogg", "pcm", "vorbis", "wav"]

aacallcafmkv*mp1mp2mp3mpaogg*pcm*wav*aiffalacflac*adpcm*isomp4vorbis*opt-simdall-codecsall-formatsopt-simd-avxopt-simd-sseopt-simd-neon

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
15
direct dependencies
Dependents
1.5K
crates depend on symphonia

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