Tauri Plugin Audio

Headless, state-driven audio playback API for Tauri 2.x apps with native transport control integration.

This plugin provides a cross-platform audio playback interface with transport controls (play, pause, stop, seek), volume/rate settings, and OS media integration (lock screen, notification shade, headphone controls). It is designed to be wrapped by a consuming app's own API layer.

Features

• State-machine-driven playback with type-safe action gating
• OS transport control integration via metadata (title, artist, artwork)
• Real-time state change events (status, time, volume, etc.)
• Volume, mute, playback rate, and loop controls
• Cross-platform support

Platform	Supported
macOS	Yes
Windows	Yes
Linux	Yes
iOS	Yes (native planned)
Android	Yes (native planned)

Playback is provided by the Rodio audio library via the standalone audio-player crate, which works across all platforms. Full native support for iOS and Android is planned.

Platform Notes

Android

Android playback uses Rodio's Oboe backend via cpal. The audio-player crate includes a build script that links libc++_shared on Android targets — Tauri's build system automatically bundles the shared library from the NDK into the APK.

No additional Gradle or manifest configuration is required beyond Tauri's standard Android setup.

iOS

iOS playback uses Rodio's CoreAudio backend via cpal. No additional configuration is required beyond Tauri's standard iOS setup.

Getting Started

Installation

1. Install NPM dependencies:

   npm install

2. Build the TypeScript bindings:

   npm run build

3. Build the Rust plugin:

   cargo build

Tests

Run all tests (TypeScript and Rust):

npm test

Run TypeScript tests only:

npm run test:ts

Run Rust tests only:

cargo test --workspace --lib

Install

This plugin requires a Rust version of at least 1.89

Rust

Add the plugin to your Cargo.toml:

src-tauri/Cargo.toml

[dependencies]
tauri-plugin-audio = { git = "https://github.com/silvermine/tauri-plugin-audio" }

JavaScript/TypeScript

Install the JavaScript bindings:

npm install @silvermine/tauri-plugin-audio

Usage

Prerequisites

Initialize the plugin in your tauri::Builder:

fn main() {
   tauri::Builder::default()
      .plugin(tauri_plugin_audio::init())
      .run(tauri::generate_context!())
      .expect("error while running tauri application");
}

API

Get the player

import { getPlayer, PlaybackStatus } from '@silvermine/tauri-plugin-audio';

async function checkPlayer() {
   const player = await getPlayer();

   console.debug(`Status: ${player.status}, Time: ${player.currentTime}`);
}

Load, play, pause, stop, or seek

The API uses discriminated unions with type guards for compile-time safety. Only valid transport actions are available based on the player's status.

import {
   getPlayer, PlaybackStatus, hasAction, AudioAction,
} from '@silvermine/tauri-plugin-audio';

async function loadAndPlay() {
   const player = await getPlayer();

   if (player.status === PlaybackStatus.Idle) {
      const { player: ready } = await player.load(
         'https://example.com/song.mp3',
         {
            title: 'My Song',
            artist: 'Artist Name',
            artwork: 'https://example.com/cover.jpg',
         },
      );

      await ready.play();
   }
}

async function managePlayback() {
   const player = await getPlayer();

   if (hasAction(player, AudioAction.Pause)) {
      await player.pause();
   } else if (hasAction(player, AudioAction.Play)) {
      await player.play();
   }
}

Adjust settings

Volume, mute, playback rate, and loop controls are always available regardless of playback status.

import { getPlayer } from '@silvermine/tauri-plugin-audio';

async function adjustSettings() {
   const player = await getPlayer();

   await player.setVolume(0.5);
   await player.setMuted(false);
   await player.setPlaybackRate(1.5);
   await player.setLoop(true);
}

Listen for state changes

listen receives updates for state transitions (status changes, volume, settings, errors).

import { getPlayer, PlaybackStatus } from '@silvermine/tauri-plugin-audio';

async function watchPlayback() {
   const player = await getPlayer();

   const unlisten = await player.listen((updated) => {
      console.debug(`Status: ${updated.status}`);

      if (updated.status === PlaybackStatus.Ended) {
         console.debug('Playback finished');
      }
   });

   // To stop listening:
   unlisten();
}

Listen for time updates

onTimeUpdate receives lightweight, high-frequency updates (~250ms) carrying only currentTime and duration, avoiding the overhead of serializing the full player state on every tick.

import { getPlayer } from '@silvermine/tauri-plugin-audio';

async function trackProgress() {
   const player = await getPlayer();

   const unlisten = await player.onTimeUpdate((time) => {
      const pct = time.duration > 0
         ? (time.currentTime / time.duration) * 100
         : 0;

      console.debug(`${time.currentTime}s / ${time.duration}s (${pct.toFixed(1)}%)`);
   });

   // To stop listening:
   unlisten();
}

State Machine

The player follows a state machine where transport actions are gated by the current PlaybackStatus:

Status	Allowed Actions
Idle	load
Loading	stop
Ready	play, seek, stop
Playing	pause, seek, stop
Paused	play, seek, stop
Ended	play, seek, load, stop
Error	load

Settings (setVolume, setMuted, setPlaybackRate, setLoop), listen, and onTimeUpdate are always available regardless of status.

Development Standards

This project follows the Silvermine standardization guidelines. Key standards include:

• EditorConfig: Consistent editor settings across the team
• Markdownlint: Markdown linting for documentation
• Commitlint: Conventional commit message format
• Code Style: 3-space indentation, LF line endings

Running Standards Checks

npm run standards

License

MIT

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please follow the established coding standards and commit message conventions.