Just tried the different zones and it worked quite well.
Few small points though:
1. When I'm double clicking an image because I want to view it full screen (I've detached the display and put it on my second monitor), it's adding it to 'playing now'. I dont want to add it to any playlist or anything, I simply want to be viewing it full screen.
2. This full screen display is perfect for images, its fast loading and 'feels' light and fast. Seeing as audio video and images are such different items needing different requirements why not have each with its own display viewer? For audio all thats really needed is the top bar as it currently is, if you want visualisations or track info or whatever too then you're creating audio and image which is basically video and so the full screen display as it is works great for video and would also for the audio.
Why not customise this image display screen to be the display mode for images properly with a few tools and menu's etc like the one for video's has.
A small play button, a pause button, next image, previous image, zoom in/out, rotate left/right.
If a nice little image GUI was added to this view it'd make the program feel alot more dedicated to images.
3. Simplify this whole 'zone' process slightly so maybe image displays are automatically sent to a second zone or something? I've done it and it works beautifully, but even as a techie, the only way I learnt how to do it was to come to this forum - do you really want every user having to come here first and ask? For the non techie ones, even after asking they still might not work it out. Seems like a waste of so much power if 90% of users never realise its there or how to use it.
4. Let me go through my current images that I'm viewing in the panes with a Page UP and a Page Down after I double click on them. It just goes through the ones in playing now which is not really what you want when you're trying to organise images. If I double click on an image in the panes - page up and down should go through the images that I have visible in the panes. If I do it in playing now it should go through the ones in playing now, if I do it in a playlist it should go through those ones etc?
It seems to be working pretty well for images, just alot of the features seem 'hidden' so to speak whereby you have to be told they're there and how to use them.
Anyway, its a great program and thanks for adding that decoding of next and previous image - works great.