diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 99698fff63..5c55184d11 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-07-12  Wim Taymans  <wim@fluendo.com>
+
+	* ext/alsa/gstalsasink.c: (set_hwparams), (gst_alsasink_prepare):
+	basesink calculates silence sample correctly for us.
+
 2006-07-12  Wim Taymans  <wim@fluendo.com>
 
 	* gst-libs/gst/audio/gstringbuffer.c: (build_linear_format),
diff --git a/ext/alsa/gstalsasink.c b/ext/alsa/gstalsasink.c
index ebdd47afd5..19139600c4 100644
--- a/ext/alsa/gstalsasink.c
+++ b/ext/alsa/gstalsasink.c
@@ -657,10 +657,6 @@ gst_alsasink_prepare (GstAudioSink * asink, GstRingBufferSpec * spec)
   alsa->bytes_per_sample = spec->bytes_per_sample;
   spec->segsize = alsa->period_size * spec->bytes_per_sample;
   spec->segtotal = alsa->buffer_size / alsa->period_size;
-  spec->silence_sample[0] = 0;
-  spec->silence_sample[1] = 0;
-  spec->silence_sample[2] = 0;
-  spec->silence_sample[3] = 0;
 
   return TRUE;