diff --git a/media/java/android/media/AudioFormat.java b/media/java/android/media/AudioFormat.java
index 24f553f957962..3a8678625b5ae 100644
--- a/media/java/android/media/AudioFormat.java
+++ b/media/java/android/media/AudioFormat.java
@@ -273,8 +273,8 @@ public final class AudioFormat implements Parcelable {
 
     /** Audio data format: compressed audio wrapped in PCM for HDMI
      * or S/PDIF passthrough.
-     * IEC61937 uses a stereo stream of 16-bit samples as the wrapper.
-     * So the channel mask for the track must be {@link #CHANNEL_OUT_STEREO}.
+     * For devices whose SDK version is less than {@link android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES#S}, the
+     * channel mask of IEC61937 track must be {@link #CHANNEL_OUT_STEREO}.
      * Data should be written to the stream in a short[] array.
      * If the data is written in a byte[] array then there may be endian problems
      * on some platforms when converting to short internally.
diff --git a/media/java/android/media/AudioTrack.java b/media/java/android/media/AudioTrack.java
index 7a2b022b514a8..2ea098408d508 100644
--- a/media/java/android/media/AudioTrack.java
+++ b/media/java/android/media/AudioTrack.java
@@ -1676,13 +1676,11 @@ public class AudioTrack extends PlayerBase
         }
         mSampleRate = sampleRateInHz;
 
-        // IEC61937 is based on stereo. We could coerce it to stereo.
-        // But the application needs to know the stream is stereo so that
-        // it is encoded and played correctly. So better to just reject it.
         if (audioFormat == AudioFormat.ENCODING_IEC61937
-                && channelConfig != AudioFormat.CHANNEL_OUT_STEREO) {
-            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
-                    "ENCODING_IEC61937 must be configured as CHANNEL_OUT_STEREO");
+                && channelConfig != AudioFormat.CHANNEL_OUT_STEREO
+                && AudioFormat.channelCountFromOutChannelMask(channelConfig) != 8) {
+            Log.w(TAG, "ENCODING_IEC61937 is configured with channel mask as " + channelConfig
+                    + ", which is not 2 or 8 channels");
         }
 
         //--------------