Really, it depends. Videos are not like photos or music. They really come in different flavors.
Music tracks are for listening, generally in sequence: albums, shuffle, smart computer playlists or human-designed DJ playlists. But all music tracks are roughly equivalent in the way you use them.
Photos are either personal life pieces or art. They fit together in albums, events or slideshows. But all photos are roughly equivalent in the way you use them.
Today you have several great options to manage your digital music (iTunes, WinAmp, SongBird...) and the same goes for your photos (Picasa, iPhoto...). You might have noticed how recent music software enables you to manage video tracks similarly to music tracks, and photo software enables you to manage your videos as if they were photos.
This is all wrong if you ask me. Videos are of different kinds, which are consumed differently.
Say you like movies. In what order do you watch them? It mostly doesn't matter.
Now what about TV series. I guess you like to watch season after season and episodes in sequence, right? Although you might watch a movie several times if you're a fan, that must happen less for series.
But let's not stop there. What about music videos and concerts of your favorite bands. You might play them time and time again, just like audio tracks. Actually you might want to convert these concert videos to MP3 and sync them on your iPod.
Is that all? No, I haven't even mentioned personal videos. Those you might want to play before diner to show your family, or once in the evening while having a few beers with your friends to remember the old days. In that case it also makes perfect sense to send them the video so they too can add it to their personal collection.
And it goes on: podcasts and TV shows are different, the kid's cartoons too, and of course adult videos is another kind that needs special attention...
So, how do you manage all that diversity of video types and usage. How do you sort them? please I wanna know!
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