diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 4fc4950e..fb608709 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ rust:
 - nightly
 - stable
 install:
-- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa -y
-- sudo apt-get update -q
-- sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev
+- wget https://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-2.0.4.tar.gz -O sdl2.tar.gz
+- tar xzf sdl2.tar.gz
+- pushd SDL2-2.0.4 && ./configure && make && sudo make install && popd
 before_script:
 - |
   pip install 'travis-cargo<0.2' --user &&
diff --git a/examples/audio-queue-squarewave.rs b/examples/audio-queue-squarewave.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..904cd226
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/audio-queue-squarewave.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+extern crate sdl2;
+
+use sdl2::audio::{AudioCallback, AudioSpecDesired};
+
+use std::time::Duration;
+
+fn gen_wave(bytes_to_write: i32) -> Vec<i16> {
+    // Generate a square wave
+    let tone_volume = 1000i16;
+    let period = 48000 / 256;
+    let sample_count = bytes_to_write;
+    let mut result = Vec::new();
+  
+    for x in 0..sample_count {
+        result.push(
+                if (x / period) % 2 == 0 {
+                tone_volume
+                }
+                else {
+                -tone_volume
+                }
+        );
+    }
+    result
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    let sdl_context = sdl2::init().unwrap();
+    let audio_subsystem = sdl_context.audio().unwrap();
+
+    let desired_spec = AudioSpecDesired {
+        freq: Some(48000),
+        channels: Some(2),
+        // mono  -
+        samples: Some(4) 
+        // default sample size 
+        };
+
+    let device = audio_subsystem.open_queue::<i16>(None, &desired_spec).unwrap();
+
+    let target_bytes = 48000 * 4;
+    let wave = gen_wave(target_bytes);
+    device.queue(&wave);
+    // Start playback 
+    device.resume();
+
+    // Play for 2 seconds 
+    std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(2000));
+
+    // Device is automatically closed when dropped 
+}
diff --git a/sdl2-sys/src/audio.rs b/sdl2-sys/src/audio.rs
index 74068ad3..b8545fe5 100644
--- a/sdl2-sys/src/audio.rs
+++ b/sdl2-sys/src/audio.rs
@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@ extern "C" {
     pub fn SDL_MixAudioFormat(dst: *mut uint8_t, src: *const uint8_t,
                               format: SDL_AudioFormat, len: uint32_t,
                               volume: c_int);
+    pub fn SDL_QueueAudio(dev: SDL_AudioDeviceID, data: *const c_void, len: uint32_t) -> c_int;
+    pub fn SDL_GetQueuedAudioSize(dev: SDL_AudioDeviceID) -> uint32_t;
+    pub fn SDL_ClearQueuedAudio(dev: SDL_AudioDeviceID);
     pub fn SDL_LockAudio();
     pub fn SDL_LockAudioDevice(dev: SDL_AudioDeviceID);
     pub fn SDL_UnlockAudio();
diff --git a/src/sdl2/audio.rs b/src/sdl2/audio.rs
index 1d91e5c1..fdfb9ef1 100644
--- a/src/sdl2/audio.rs
+++ b/src/sdl2/audio.rs
@@ -74,6 +74,13 @@ impl AudioSubsystem {
         AudioDevice::open_playback(self, device, spec, get_callback)
     }
 
+    /// Opens a new audio device which uses queueing rather than older callback method.
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn open_queue<Channel>(&self, device: Option<&str>, spec: &AudioSpecDesired) -> Result<AudioQueue<Channel>, String> where Channel: AudioFormatNum
+    {
+        AudioQueue::open_queue(self, device, spec)
+    }
+
     pub fn current_audio_driver(&self) -> &'static str {
         unsafe {
             let buf = ll::SDL_GetCurrentAudioDriver();
@@ -392,14 +399,34 @@ impl AudioSpecDesired {
                 padding: 0,
                 size: 0,
                 callback: Some(audio_callback_marshall::<CB>
-                    as extern "C" fn
-                        (arg1: *mut c_void,
-                         arg2: *mut uint8_t,
-                         arg3: c_int)),
+                        as extern "C" fn
+                            (arg1: *mut c_void,
+                             arg2: *mut uint8_t,
+                             arg3: c_int)),
                 userdata: transmute(userdata)
             }
         }
     }
+
+    fn convert_queue_to_ll<Channel: AudioFormatNum>(freq: Option<i32>, channels: Option<u8>, samples: Option<u16>) -> ll::SDL_AudioSpec {
+        if let Some(freq) = freq { assert!(freq > 0); }
+        if let Some(channels) = channels { assert!(channels > 0); }
+        if let Some(samples) = samples { assert!(samples > 0); }
+
+        // A value of 0 means "fallback" or "default".
+
+        ll::SDL_AudioSpec {
+            freq: freq.unwrap_or(0),
+            format: <Channel as AudioFormatNum>::audio_format().to_ll(),
+            channels: channels.unwrap_or(0),
+            silence: 0,
+            samples: samples.unwrap_or(0),
+            padding: 0,
+            size: 0,
+            callback: None,
+            userdata: 0 as *mut c_void
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 #[allow(missing_copy_implementations)]
@@ -445,6 +472,84 @@ impl Drop for AudioDeviceID {
     }
 }
 
+/// Wraps SDL_AudioDeviceID and owns the callback data used by the audio device.
+pub struct AudioQueue<Channel: AudioFormatNum> {
+    subsystem: AudioSubsystem,
+    device_id: AudioDeviceID,
+    phantom: PhantomData<Channel>
+}
+
+impl<Channel: AudioFormatNum> AudioQueue<Channel> {
+    /// Opens a new audio device given the desired parameters and callback.
+    pub fn open_queue(a: &AudioSubsystem, device: Option<&str>, spec: &AudioSpecDesired) -> Result<AudioQueue<Channel>, String> {
+        let desired = AudioSpecDesired::convert_queue_to_ll::<Channel>(spec.freq, spec.channels, spec.samples);
+
+        let mut obtained = unsafe { mem::uninitialized::<ll::SDL_AudioSpec>() };
+        unsafe {
+            let device = match device {
+                Some(device) => Some(CString::new(device).unwrap()),
+                None => None
+            };
+            let device_ptr = device.map_or(ptr::null(), |s| s.as_ptr());
+
+            let iscapture_flag = 0;
+            let device_id = ll::SDL_OpenAudioDevice(
+                device_ptr as *const c_char, iscapture_flag, &desired, 
+                &mut obtained, 0
+            );
+            match device_id {
+                0 => {
+                    Err(get_error())
+                },
+                id => {
+                    let device_id = AudioDeviceID::PlaybackDevice(id);
+
+                    Ok(AudioQueue {
+                        subsystem: a.clone(),
+                        device_id: device_id,
+                        phantom: PhantomData::default()
+                    })
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn subsystem(&self) -> &AudioSubsystem { &self.subsystem }
+
+    pub fn status(&self) -> AudioStatus {
+        unsafe {
+            let status = ll::SDL_GetAudioDeviceStatus(self.device_id.id());
+            FromPrimitive::from_i32(status as i32).unwrap()
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Pauses playback of the audio device.
+    pub fn pause(&self) {
+        unsafe { ll::SDL_PauseAudioDevice(self.device_id.id(), 1) }
+    }
+
+    /// Starts playback of the audio device.
+    pub fn resume(&self) {
+        unsafe { ll::SDL_PauseAudioDevice(self.device_id.id(), 0) }
+    }
+
+    /// Adds data to the audio queue.
+    pub fn queue(&self, data: &[Channel]) -> bool {
+        let result = unsafe {ll::SDL_QueueAudio(self.device_id.id(), data.as_ptr() as *const c_void, data.len() as u32)};
+        result == 0
+    }
+
+    pub fn size(&self) -> u32 {
+        unsafe {ll::SDL_GetQueuedAudioSize(self.device_id.id())}
+    }
+
+    /// Clears all data from the current audio queue.
+    pub fn clear(&self) {
+        unsafe {ll::SDL_ClearQueuedAudio(self.device_id.id());}
+    }
+}
+
 /// Wraps SDL_AudioDeviceID and owns the callback data used by the audio device.
 pub struct AudioDevice<CB: AudioCallback> {
     subsystem: AudioSubsystem,