Apple TV App not playing 5.1 audio music files anymore

[TeknoJunky]

I wonder if this related to the same/similar problem on nvidia shield ?

Advice for HTPC

I have a Shield now. I’ve had it a couple years and would not have bought a lower model, but I don’t recall the option of a Shield vs a Shield Pro at the time. My issue with the Shield is that it will not pass through an audio only flac 5.1 file. flac 2.0 will pass through just fine but Plex always transcodes flac 5.1 to AAC 5.1. When you tell it to force pass-through, it won’t play (via wired ethernet), just silence. When I use Plex via the web-browser on my laptop (wireless) it does pass …