How do you do a "poster-view" for tv shows as here:
Do you have some posters to use? If not, that's the first thing you'll need to do... You can just use a google image search, or you can use a dedicated site. I use
http://www.movieposterdb.com/ but it's not free. For movies, IMPAwards is free and pretty good. I'm sure there are others too!
Second, you need a field to group your episodes by. I use a custom field [Movie] which I use to assign the name of the movie/show (I know it's a bit confusing using "Movie" for TV shows, but I didn't want to have two separate fields so I just called it movie, and use it for both movies and TV episodes). You could just as easily use [Album] or similar if you didn't want to create a dedicated field. All of the episodes of a particular show should be tagged with the same [Movie] entry - eg "Family Guy". The seasons/episode #'s etc can be used to organise/sort the files within the show. Add your poster (image files) to all episodes belonging to a particular movie. This can be done automatically if you place the images in the folders alongside with the files.
Once you've done that, it's just a matter of creating a view scheme.
View -> Add View ->Add library view -> Empty View
Under "show categories", pick [Movie] (or your equivalent field)
Under "view as" select Movie Thumbnails
And that's it. The top part of the view will show the movie/show thumbnails (which should be the posters if you have correctly assigned the coverart), and the bottom (collapsible) part shows the episode list. That's how I do it anyway - you can tweak the settings any which way to suit your own needs and setup
You must have a lot of hard drives! It seems like a huge collection!
I've got six internal 1TB ones and a few externals for backups. It doesn't matter how much you've got... you'll always end up filling it!
