[knewknow]

Oh, yeah, you're right. I've had that option selected for years and just forgot about it.

I'll add an option to use external poster.jpg to the settings. Not today, but soon

In the meantime, you could set Prefer Posters and rescan to get the result you want, obviously.

Did you happen to get around to looking at adding the poster.jpg?

The problem is that Metropolis kind of assumes in a lot of places that the default image it gets from the scraper is going to be a poster and that the banners come from the Artwork Downloader. I realize that is the opposite of what Confluence assumes but that's just how Metropolis was originally designed. IMHO Confluence is the one that has it backwards (movie posters are default, I think tv shows should match that), but that's neither here nor there.

Honestly I don't think this should happen within the skin at all (both images should be scraped) but I'm not sure what the issue is there either.

That said, I haven't had a chance to get to this issue. There are a couple of fundamental problems I saw when I looked at it originally. One that stands out is what do I do if the user selects Banners by default but doesn't have the Artwork Downloader installed or hasn't manually downloaded posters for his shows? The Info dialog, for instance, doesn't have a layout conducive to banners. Should it just not display an image? Should I make an alternate Info dialog if banners are the default?

Is it acceptable to have all of the poster views (all five of them) not work out of the box in this configuration?

Well I know the way it works with other skins is in settings there are options like "use posters for posters views" or "use banners for banners views". So if the view expects a banner, and the banner setting is checked, then it will display the banner.jpg image. Otherwise it just displays whatever is scraped into cache (this will be very distorted/stretched).