Quote:the other views are simply refinements based on a specific media type, designed to work well with that type of media.
examples:
my pictures is optimized for viewing pictures: folders are assigned thumbs based on what images are in the folder, thumbs for images are assigned based on the exif data (if present) for fast loading.
my music is optimized for viewing music: id3 tags are read, and files can be sorted based on artist, album, genre, title, length etc. furthermore, the music library view relies entirely on tags, which obviously only works for music.
my videos is optimized for viewing videos: imdb data can be obtained, and the database views rely on this information (ie it will only work for videos.)
my programs is optimized for viewing programs: directory structure is flattened so you see only the xbe's (which are named by the actual title of the game, not the filename) and trainer overlays are displayed if a game has trainers etc.
it's obvious really. if you just want to use xbmc as a listing of all the files you have, then use the filemanager.