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I wonder if this fix is no longer needed when the Shield TV gets updated to Marshmallow later this week.
The Passthrough issue is said to only affect Lollipop.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-...30895.html

The Shield itself can do HD audio passthrough. Nvidia added this functionality already. It is up to the apps, such as Kodi, to be able to utilize this. That is the point of the experimental builds.

You're half right.

Android lollipop doesn't natively support HD Passthrough, which is why Kodi has problems.
Marshmallow natively implements Passthrough, so is less work for Kodi.

Nvidia's own players work as they've been specifically done

I may be wrong, but I thought Nvidia backported the HD Passthrough from Marshmallow. I also don't think Nvidia did anything with the native player, it is just the default android player. MX Player works with passthrough too.

Even if the Shield doesn't get Marshmallow, I don't think it would make a difference with Kodi Android development passthrough. I think Kodi v17 already has the work done to properly implement passthrough anyway.