Splitting Your Sound Outputs into Multiple Zones and Connecting Them to MPD

One of my basement computers has one of these Intel High-Definition Audio sound cards. There are 6 analog mini jacks on the back, 5 of which are outputs and 1 which is an input. The outputs are: stereo line out, stereo rear out, stereo side out, center, and subwoofer (LFE). Given that I have two ultra-quiet speaker zones in my house (rooms where I want to be able to listen to computer music without the sound pollution of a computer), wouldn't it be neat to route two *different* sound sources to the two stereophonic outputs that are connected to the two zones?

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