fix: share soundcard between darkice and ISR via ALSA dsnoop

hw:0,0 is an exclusive ALSA device — darkice holding it caused arecord
to fail silently (stderr was /dev/null), leaving all recordings at 0 bytes
with no errors in the log.

asound.conf: defines a dsnoop virtual device 'shared_mic' that opens
hw:0,0 once and lets multiple processes capture simultaneously.

docker-compose.yml: mount asound.conf into the container as
/etc/asound.conf; add ipc: host so the container shares the host IPC
namespace (dsnoop uses System V shared memory which does not cross the
container IPC boundary without this).

config.example.ini: document the dsnoop setup and shared-device pattern.
README, CLAUDE.md: document the full setup procedure.
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@@ -144,3 +144,19 @@ format = auto
# sample_rate = 44100
# channels = 2
# format = flac
#
# SHARING A DEVICE WITH ANOTHER APP (e.g. darkice):
# ALSA hw: devices are exclusive — only one process can open them at a time.
# Use the dsnoop virtual device defined in asound.conf to share the hardware:
#
# 1. sudo cp asound.conf /etc/asound.conf (once, on the host)
# 2. Change the other app (darkice etc.) to use device "shared_mic" too
# 3. Use device = shared_mic in ISR config (docker-compose.yml mounts asound.conf automatically)
#
# [usb_mic_shared]
# type = soundcard
# device = shared_mic
# backend = alsa
# sample_rate = 48000
# channels = 2
# format = flac