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[CraigNZ]

What I did was use Particles to list each of the episodes for a TV show disc.  I then set episode and used Get Movie and TV info for each episode .. worked great, now had cover art for each one.

When I use Theater View and select Video, TV Shows I see the TV show cover.  I click on it and I see each of the episodes listed.  When I click on an episode the covert art on the right side displays the correct episode cover art for 1 second then changes to the cover art of the last episode I added above.  So if I click on E1 then it displays episode 1 cover art then changes to episode 3 cover art.  If I click on episode 2 it displays episode 2 cover art then changes to episode 3 cover art.  If I click on episode 3 it displays episode 3 cover art and does not change (probably did but it is the same one)

This problem has been around in release 18 and 19 and now again in 20.  Any ideas why it changes?  Is there some setting in the options I need to set so it will not do this?

[ldoodle]

When I use Theater View and select Video, TV Shows I see the TV show cover.

Sorry can't help with your problem, but how did you do this?

I do exactly the same: rip an entire disc, import the rip, then use particles.  Get TV Info and Cover Art for each episode works great, but Theater View shows the first item's covert art at the Season level.  I get round this by having a dummy first episode (Episode No = 0), which has the DVD box cover as the covert art.

I'd like to not have a dummy episode though.

Thanks!!

[ldoodle]

OK, so used the Wiki guide.

Right click series, say American Horror Story, Cover Art > Get from Internet.  This pulls down series and season art into the folder specified in Options.

This works for the series, but when I go into a series, the season art is not displaying - it still shows the artwork from the first episode.

Is it because the season level view has to be the 'Season' field, rather than 'TV Series'.  If I use 'Season', I'd obviously only get the season number shown in Theater View, and my understanding is that 'TV Series' basically concatenates the word 'Season' with the value in the Season field, so it actually displays as 'Season 1'.

[pahunt]

So if I click on E1 then it displays episode 1 cover art then changes to episode 3 cover art.  If I click on episode 2 it displays episode 2 cover art then changes to episode 3 cover art.  If I click on episode 3 it displays episode 3 cover art and does not change (probably did but it is the same one)

As I understand it this is a limitation of particles at the current time. I believe it's because there is only a single file for multiple episodes and only one cover art file can be stored per media file.

I would love for it to be "fixed" though.

[ldoodle]

Is it because the season level view has to be the 'Season' field

It's this.  If I change from TV Series to Season, the cover art shows properly, but as mentioned I now just get a numerical value in Theater View, which looks silly.

Can the Series/Season cover art display be changed to work with the TV Series field?

[Hendrik]

"TV Series" is not a built-in field, unless you refer to something else and I'm misunderstanding.

In TheaterView, if you use an expression of "TVInfo(SeasonDisplay)" for grouping (Expression -> Expression to group by), it will show "Season 1" instead of just "1", and still allow Season Cover Art to be shown.
This is what I use in my own library and it works perfectly.

[ldoodle]

Thanks Hendrik, I'll give that a go.

I have a field named 'TV Series', and I cannot remember creating it.

[ldoodle]

I have a field named 'TV Series', and I cannot remember creating it.

I remember now!  I have an expression to cater for TV Specials, Only Fools and Horses being one.  Displaying Season 0 is meaningless so I do this:

if(IsEqual([Season], 0, 2), Specials, Season [Season])

So if Season = 0, display 'Specials'.

I tried changing it to:

if(IsEqual([Season], 0, 2), Specials, TVInfo(SeasonDisplay))

but it doesn't work, in that it still shows the first episodes cover art at the Season library item.

Using just the expression you gave works properly.  Is my modified expression wrong, or will it just not work?

[Hendrik]

Use just plain "TVInfo(SeasonDisplay)" in Expression to group by, and you can use whatever other expression in "Expression for display" (the second expression block), that should work properly then.

[ldoodle]

Thanks Hendrik.  I'll give that a go too.

Right click series, say American Horror Story, Cover Art > Get from
Internet.

Is it possible to get Covert Art > Quick Find to also push the cover art to the local cover art folder for Series and Season?  It doesn't work for me, only Get From Internet does this.

But, I manually organise my own cover art (so it's same DPI, dimensions etc.) and store them in the movie folder as Folder.jpg.  Maybe the Folder.jpg file name makes it not work. Maybe if I named them so they match the series and season info it would?

[ldoodle]

Use just plain "TVInfo(SeasonDisplay)" in Expression to group by, and you can use whatever other expression in "Expression for display" (the second expression block), that should work properly then.

Spot on! Thanks