[fritsch]

You can write a lot of text or just get a decent android/linux/windows device that has proper firmware or drivers
We will NOT go down the road of keeping support where the manufacturer is to blames.

Sorry

That doesn't address or solve the problem with blasts of noise that can still occur with the official version with the 'keep audio device alive' setting with some Dolby processors that don't lock-on instantly.

I'd buy a newer KODI box if I could find one that had Amazon Prime + Netflix support and full audio output.  Unless the newer FireTV does better, I wouldn't count on such a device any time soon.  I would still buy another box just for KODI if it had full MVS 3D hardware support, but it seems Windows 10 boxes that can do it have their own update issues plus the official KODI doesn't support hardware 3D MVS regardless so it's the same potential lack of future version support all over again.  As it stands, I'm out of inputs on my receiver anyway so something would have to go in order to add another device at least until I get a newer receiver with more inputs.  

For the technical point: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/13087/...0ac47ea7be

and for the "shitty" point: It's not real work for me to provide a shitty build - as through my refactoring of the Android Sink it's just a one liner change ... we don't want that users suffer ... but won't put everyone at risk by default obviously ...

See: https://github.com/fritsch/xbmc/commit/9...7d59670b7c
And for the broken float users: https://github.com/fritsch/xbmc/commit/4...5be252b9ed

Just two lines of code - and shitty by default.