How to stream surround 5.1 over AirPlay for music files?

I am able to stream movies from iTunes to AppleTV and maintain surround 5.1 sound, just like movies streamed from Netflix or Apple. [requires a secondary AC3 Passthru audio stream]. However, despite multiple sound formats that can encode 5.1 sound, including MP3, WAV, AIFF and ALAC (all of which are supported by iTunes), I cannot get *music* to stream over AirPlay from iTunes or any other streaming app like VLC.
Does anyone know a way to stream *audio* files to AppleTV and play back with surround sound? I have several DVD-A surround discs remastered to 5.1, but I don't have a DVD player for them, and prefer to keep all of my music in digital form anyway.

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