[linux-audio-dev] Merging digital sampling sessions

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 23:39 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> On another note: it would seem like a simple enough task to let the
> recording start with the first non-zero sample.  I have been
> completely unable to make head or tails of the manual page
> descriptions of the arecord options presumably intended for that and
> have found absolutely no setting that would not either drop quite more
> than just the initial zeros, or not drop anything at all.
> 
> I'd also like to prune trailing zeros at some point of time.  arecord
> does not seem to have options for doing that, I guess. 

Well arecord is more of a debugging tool and a demonstration of the ALSA
API than a full featured recording app.  Check the list archives, I am
pretty sure this was discussed not long ago.

Lee