View modes
The same collection, four different windows. They all live in the menu, and switching between them changes nothing in the data.
| Title list | The workhorse: one line per movie, with columns you choose. Fastest with a large collection, and the only mode where sorting by several fields and reading a lot of data at once actually works. |
| Cover thumbnails | A wall of posters. Good for browsing, and much better than a list when you are trying to remember what a film was. The thumbnail size is a slider in Preferences; the first switch to this mode builds the thumbnails, which takes a few minutes on a big collection. |
| Cover Flow | The covers as a carousel you scroll through. Pleasant for a hundred films, less so for ten thousand. |
| Virtual shelf | The collection drawn as discs standing on a shelf, with a choice of shelf backgrounds — wood, brick, stone and others. Closest to looking at the real thing. |
The movie card next to the list
Whatever the list mode, the selected movie is shown as a card. Two things control it:
- (Ctrl+Alt+Z) turns the card panel off entirely, giving the list the whole window.
- opens the card template chooser: about twenty designs, from the plain Standard through Standard Dark, Popcorn, Premiere, Screenplay and Storefront to High Contrast and Large Print for readability. The list previews each one on the current movie before you commit.
Ctrl+Num + and Ctrl+Num - scale the card up and down live; Ctrl+Num * puts it back to normal.
Where the list sits
Ctrl+Z switches between the list on the left with the card beside it, and the list across the top with the card below. The same choice is Display movie list on the top in Preferences. Wide screens usually suit the first; the second gives long titles more room.
Sorting and grouping
Sorting orders the flat list — by title, original title, date added, movie number, rating, personal rating, year or director.
Grouping is more interesting: it turns the list into a tree by director, writer, genre, year, country, studio, media type, media label, media location, aspect ratio, quality, file type, first letter, date added, personal marks or any custom field of yours. A collection you cannot search through, you can usually still browse. Both menus are in View and in the right-click menu of the list.
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