I also agree with the above two posts. I have also recently found them to be a nice way to browse. I think it would be nice to have the poster for the TVShow either on the left of the episode shots, as rick.ca has in his image, or perhaps preferably, over on the far left before the name of the show, i.e. image followed by name/custom expression.
Just to be clear about what appears in my screenshot...The series posters are associated with my dummy series records. Those are tagged so they appear in the proper order in the file list (i.e., as if they were S00E00), but I have no control over where they appear in the lineup. In the screenshot, note the poster for Deadwood is between two episode images. I've never attempted to find a pattern in what order they appear in.
Showing series posters at the far left might go nicely with the option to show the episode images on the right.
rick, could you please remind me how to get the lineup style. I think I followed some instruction (from you?) for MC16 a while ago, but can't find how to do it again and brain is too .....
After many hours spent rebuilding my Theatre View views, this is probably the only thing left in my brain. It's not an option or setting in the configuration as you might expect. It's set directly in Theatre View only—separately for each view. Select
More > Toggle List Style from the menu. Beware of toggling too far—the menu behaves inconsistently after reaching the Showroom style. Also, note there are actually two styles for each view—one for the Categories (one style for however many there are) and a separate one for the file list.
Being able to change the style in Theatre View might sometimes be necessary, but there should also be a setting for it in the configuration. Changing a configuration setting is much faster than cycling through the styles in the view. It would be a small consolation for the more functional lineup style not being the default in the first place.
To be honest, i don't see the point of some random screengrabs either? But to each his own i guess, as long as it can be changed, everyone can tweak it as they please. But a a "season"-image would be nice.
Random? Yuck. Episode images are normally be chosen from multiple screenshots. If not by you, then by some other user of the meta data source (like TVDb).