The Network Audio System (NAS)

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Last Updated: 01/29/2022

Welcome to the NAS Homepage. The Network Audio System is a network transparent, client/server audio transport system. It can be described as the audio equivalent of an X server. Enjoy!

The current stable release version of NAS is now at 1.9.5

Much of the information on this page is out of date. See the SourceForge page.

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NAS Overview

This page contains information for the Network Audio System (NAS), a network-transparent, client/server audio system originally developed at Network Computing Devices (NCD) by Jim Fulton, Greg Renda, and Dave Lemke that includes:

The client software can also be used with several models of NCD X terminals as well as NCD's PCXware (an X server for PCs running Microsoft Windows).

Key features of the Network Audio System include:

Please note that the Network Audio System has no relationship to the NetAudio products from Townshend Computer Tools.

Look at the file doc/xcon94paper.ps (Postscript) in the source distribution for a paper on the Network Audio System.


Latest News

1/29/2022

NAS 1.9.5 (stable) is now available. This version includes some patches submitted over the last 9 years or so. See HISTORY for details.


Mailing List


Downloading

The Release version is now 1.9.5 (1/29/2022).

Distribution information Current Stable Release GIT Source Code Repository access

To check out the latest version of the project into a subdirectory named 'nas', you would use a command like:

git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/nas/nas.git nas

Precompiled Binaries/Packages (most likely WAY out of date)