[kizer]

I might sound like an idiot for asking, but I really dig the look of Media View 1 and I've been giving the Sets feature a spin. Normally it shows the Fantart, but when you use sets it changes to a set of seats. You can click on the set and change the thumb, but is it possible to assign it a fan art image? I've tried it a few times and for some reason I can't get it to take a fan art sized image.

Thats not true once I did, but it only appeared to work when I used the Misc settings and said to turn off fan art it showed the thumb.

[sho]

It's not possible atm, anything that might have worked for you was a fluke.
See:
http://www.xbmc.org/trac/ticket/7556

[kizer]

I guess what I should rephrase my question. Not the fan art aka the background, but the image that is being shown as a thumbnail, but really is a fan art image shrunk.

[sho]

Right from misc options for a submenu blade and de-select use small fanart.