Audio Issue on New Android Tablet

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Are these by chance FLAC audio? TDP offers the easiest solution which is trying to force audio transcoding by setting max supported audio channels. I've had mixed success as to whether that actually gets respected (I think maybe device profile overrides whatever you set here?).

I have only ever seen this behavior on 2.X systems (i.e., stereo with or without sub) during playback of media with 5.1+ FLAC audio. No matter what I did, I couldn't get the audio to mix correctly. I ended up re-encoding the audio down to stereo + 5.1 in a non-FLAC format and muxing it back in to replace the original stream. I will never own a surround system where the quality of FLAC matters and I've had a home theater system on the order of $4k before. I don't understand the bloating but that's just me.