Building an Audio Compression Desktop App in Rust

Introduction

In this tutorial, we will walk through the process of creating an audio compression GUI application using Rust. Rust is known for its performance and safety, making it an excellent choice for building applications that require handling audio data efficiently. We will use a combination of Rust libraries for audio processing and GUI creation to build our application.

Prerequisites

Before we start, ensure you have the following installed on your system:

• Rust and Cargo (Rust’s package manager)
• ffmpeg for audio processing
• GTK for GUI components

You can install Rust and Cargo by following the instructions on the official Rust website.

Setting Up the Project

Create a new Rust project

cargo new audio_compression_gui cd audio_compression_gui

Add dependencies

Open the Cargo.toml file and add the following dependencies:

[dependencies] 
gtk = "0.10.1" 
glib = "0.10.3" 
gdk = "0.10.3" 
libav = "0.3.2" # A hypothetical Rust binding for ffmpeg

Building the GUI