[midgetspy]

It seems to me that because the file view has so many additional features, people use it as it was never intended. It is supposed to be a way to view your files, like Windows Explorer. The fact that it displays fanart and all that fancy stuff is a bonus, but it's still meant to be a file view... if you want to view your media in some kind of media view it's expected that you'd use library view.

So IMO this should be explored: what is file mode doing that library mode isn't? Why do people use file mode for what library mode should be used for?

Perhaps there's some UI changes that can be implemented to make sense of all this. For example, maybe a 3rd view could be added so there's Files, Media, and Library... Library being db view, Media being a media-rich files view, and Files being a raw file explorer (like the Filemanager currently).