im getting bored of the brown folders in theaterview everywhere...
You're doing something wrong. I'm afraid I'm unable to tell you exactly what that is. It happens to me sometimes when I'm creating a new view. When it does, I can see the difference between the new view's configuration and my existing views, and fix it. Unfortunately, I'm unable to reproduce the condition, and I have no ugly brown folders in any of my views. It's just one of a number of things that are flaky about the Theatre View configuration.
Just a guess... It might have something to do with how the "Items to Show" are nested. This is how I understand the three available levels should be used:
- Main menu: Audio, Images, Video, etc.
- Sub menu: "Library Items" added to a particular main menu item. These appear on a second line under the selected main menu item. This can be confusing—this "library item" could be a view, or it may have other items nested below it...
- Nested library items: These appear on the second roller once the parent item has been selected (i.e., within the view itself).
If categories have been selected for a library item (at level 2 if there are no nested items and otherwise level 3), then the view should show thumbnails for each category value—not folders. There are three styles available for displaying these—selected from within Theatre View (
More>Toggle List Style). My almost universal preference it the one that shows a row of thumbnails for each category value, and rotates them if there are more than will fit. That works very nicely for showing the albums of an artist, the movies of a genre, the episodes of a series, etc.
I'd like to make special folders for tv shows, movies, self help, home videos, recently imported, artists, directors, i'd also like to change the folders in my music as well. make dance,rock, jazz etc folders.
Just to be clear, what I've attempted to describe it the "proper" why to configure views so they will use existing cover art to represent categories. The idea (which has been suggested by others) of representing categories with separate images representing each category value is a completely separate matter. Personally, I have difficulty imagining that to be of much practical use. Where am I going to get images to represent (in a meaningful way) every music genre and style, media type, movie genre, etc.?