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<blockquote data-quote="dir" data-source="post: 1049610" data-attributes="member: 24485">on Alpha-4, when I enter Movies, it displays 20 or so 'genre' folders.&nbsp;&nbsp; There's no option in the left-side 'hidden' menu to change this ('small/medium/large/covers' just changes the layout of these 'genre' folders).&nbsp; I couldn't find any way to change it anywhere else, either.Is there no way to have the initial view of Movies a listing of all the movies in my collection?&nbsp; (sorted by most-recently-added of course).&nbsp; It makes no sense to expect my household to be forced to browse the movie collection by genre and be faced with a meaningless row of folder icons.Also, the initial screen displays a 'total count' number on the top right that implies the total # of movies in the collection, but in fact it isn't.&nbsp; Because a movie often has more than one genre, many are counted twice or more.&nbsp; So my 3400-movie collection appears to be about 10,400, according to that display.&nbsp; Sure, a technical person like me can easily work out what its really displaying, but I don't think the gui should be pandering to OCD database administrators, it should be pandering to 35-yr old housewives that just want to check to see what latest movies are available!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dir, post: 1049610, member: 24485"] on Alpha-4, when I enter Movies, it displays 20 or so 'genre' folders. There's no option in the left-side 'hidden' menu to change this ('small/medium/large/covers' just changes the layout of these 'genre' folders). I couldn't find any way to change it anywhere else, either. Is there no way to have the initial view of Movies a listing of all the movies in my collection? (sorted by most-recently-added of course). It makes no sense to expect my household to be forced to browse the movie collection by genre and be faced with a meaningless row of folder icons. Also, the initial screen displays a 'total count' number on the top right that implies the total # of movies in the collection, but in fact it isn't. Because a movie often has more than one genre, many are counted twice or more. So my 3400-movie collection appears to be about 10,400, according to that display. Sure, a technical person like me can easily work out what its really displaying, but I don't think the gui should be pandering to OCD database administrators, it should be pandering to 35-yr old housewives that just want to check to see what latest movies are available! [/QUOTE]

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