Remember the media player called yFlicks I blogged about a while back? Many Tricks Software have released an update to the application, taking it to version 2.0.

yFlicks is a full-blown movie manager used for organizing your precious home movies, clips downloaded from the web, and so on. It makes finding and watching a movie quick a quick and easy task — without having to import it into your movie manager’s database first and worrying about how to get rid of it afterwards.

If you’re the type of person who loves browsing digital media on YouTube, the video section on Digg or just the general web, this application is designed to fit seamlessly into your workflow to watch, store, and organize video clips.

Performance is very smooth when playing videos, it can get a little sluggish when important clips (as it did when I imported over 350 videos from my external LaCie drive). The interface is very clean and Apple iLife like, collections and playlists reside on the left while video thumbnails are displayed to the right.

According to the Many Tricks blog they are working on “the most intelligent tagging mechanism you have ever seen” for a future update after endless requests for tag support in yFlicks. I’m looking forward to seeing what they have in store for us with this supposed mind breaking feature.

I really like yFlicks as now I no longer have videos scattered around my various drives and throughout my system, everything is in one convenient location which can easily be accessed thanks to the Library. I now have iTunes for music, iPhoto and Aperture for images, and yFlicks for shorter media files.

There’s not too much more I could wish for from this application, first time around I found a few faults which have been cleaned up and improved in this version. Looking down the path, I’m excited to see what this “exciting tag feature” has in store.

yFlicks 2.0 costs around $18 USD (15 Euros) and is a free upgrade for registered users of the first version.