[styxit]

Htpc Manager can also show the images without PIL. Are you using the latest version of Htpc Manager? Please re-download and test. I have a windows system where i completely removed PIL and the images still work. You might get a warning about missing PIL and that images could load really slow, but they should work, even without Pil. Try uninstalling PIL and using HTPC Manager without PIL.

opacity on images and resizing might not work, but at least you can view covers.

Thanks, I'll update now and give it a go

If you use the internal update function from within HtpcManager, make sure you restart htpc manager after a successfull update. But to be sure, in your case i would do a fresh download or a git- pull. Let me know if this works for you.