Countdown to play

Is there a countdown to play/record option? My recording starts at bar 1. The only way to do it so far is make the recording start at bar 2 and the put a simple beat in bar 1. But I need my song to start at bar 1. Thanks!

At least one else would like this feature, as you can see downhere it seems it don’t have been implemented yet :
http://tracker.ardour.org/view.php?id=3113

Just by curiosity, why do you need your song to start at bar 1 ? (You can move move the session start at any time)

I dont see whats wrong with starting at bar 2. I aways space at the beginning for simiar purposes as a lead in before starting a recording. Sometimes as much as 4 bars.

When exporting i just move the start marker and then i dont get the 4 bars of silence.