I suppose we could find a way to split the audio but what I would like to see from K is a way to associate a movie player with a particular audio zone- call it "linking". This way, if I am entertaining and I want the family room TV to show the artist details, etc, it can be done.
That's precisely what the "Movie Players are allowed to control all music zones in the system" setting is for. Once you enable that setting via the Installer Web UI, the Now Playing screen of any movie player in your system will have a new "Control Zone..." option above the Random and Repeat buttons. You can select which zone you wish to control here. NOTE: If you name one or more of your Music Zones "Unused" then they won't show up on this list. Simply select the zone and your Now Playing screen will display the information about what is playing
in the selected Zone. This will be independent of what is playing on your movie player.
For example, say your 5 zones in question are named:
Family Room (your movie player)
Zone 1 (Your music player)
Zone 2 (Your music player)
Zone 3 (Your music player)
Zone 4 (Your music player).
On the movie player in the family room, you start playing some Springsteen. Meanwhile, in Zone 1 -- let's say it's the bar area, you've got some Rush kicking it old school. Then -- using "Control Zone..." -- you switch your MP to Zone 1. You're Now Playing screen will show the Rush tracks and you have full control of Zone 1. Any changes to the playlist you make will be heard in the bar, not the family room, where you'll still be hearing Springsteen.
If you really want to get fancy, you can do this all via the control protocol as well using the SET_CONTROLLED_ZONE and GET_CONTROLLED_ZONE commands.