We use a variety of waveforms, including sawtooth and real music with a
silence leader. Using Windows tools like Cool Edit and WaveLab it's a
simple task to clip the silence (or anything else for that matter). I
haven't yet found a Linux tool that makes it quite as easy. Audacity new
(version 1.2.0-pre1) vertical scale expansion feature is inadequate to
examine samples down to within 1 amplitude bit of silence (-90 dB for a
16-bit sample, or -138 for a 24-bit sample). Know of any Linux tools that
provide that capability?