The Network Audio System: make your applications sing (as well as dance)!
Jim Fulton, Greg Renda · 1994
Audio input and output is rapidly becoming a standard feature in desktop devices and an expected element of user interfaces. Workstations, X terminals, and personal computers now typically include hardware capabilities ranging from 8 kHz mono "voice quality" up through 48 kHz stereo. Unfortunately, application programming interfaces vary widely across platforms, limiting the types of applications that can be developed in X environments. The Network Audio System, commonly but unimaginatively known as NetworkAudio, was developed by NCD for playing, recording, and manipulating audio data over a network. Like the X Window System [Scheifler92], it uses the client/server model to separate applications from the specific drivers that control audio input and output devices. A free, sample implementation of the NetworkAudio server and programming library is available for Sun and SGI platforms; additional product versions are available or have been announced for NCD X terminals, NCD PC-X servers,...