There are a lot of improvements in yFlicks 3.1, and you can read all about them here; but let’s focus on two things we’re especially thrilled with for the sake of brevity:

Firstly, you can now have yFlicks treat a sequence of movies as one composite movie by selecting them and choosing “Merge Movie Sequence…” from the “File” menu. This makes dealing with multi-part movies, as present in vast quantities on YouTube, for instance, much easier and more elegant.

And seconly, sometimes you encounter a movie that has black borders around the actual movie frames. Apart from consuming screen estate, these don’t serve any purpose, so yFlicks now lets you get rid of them by choosing “Crop Visible Area…” from the “Display” menu.

yFlicks 3.0.3 squashes just one little bug, namely a display glitch in the English localization’s “Advanced” preferences tab.

This is just a small update to yFlicks, but it contains a lot of things we know you have been waiting for. First and foremost, it reduces the delays you’ve learned to hate when you were adding multiple files to your yFlicks library, and it does so dramatically. Movie metadata — such as preview images and movie durations — are now cached by a separate little helper process we call the “yflickscrawler”, so you don’t have to wait until yFlicks has digested all those new movies before doing anything else anymore.

There is also a new overlay slider control for movie previews, giving you the possibility to skim entire movies with minmal effort — without ever really having to open them.

And there are a lot more little improvments, but this one is kinda important for us, since we’re native German speakers and we’ve had a lot of friends asking for this: yFlicks now has a complete German localization.

The new yFlicks 3 doesn’t just let you view and arrange movies in static groups — its versatile tags feature lets you categorize your movies any way you want. You can even tag your movie automatically by querying Amazon’s online movie database, which gives you the additional benefit of having the corresponding DVD cover art downloaded automatically. And once you’ve done so, creating smart groups based on your tags and subdividing those smart groups by tag values will let you browse your movie library by Genre, Actor, Director, MPAA Rating, or Year, for instance.

And if you’re a Front Row fan, you’ll love the fact that usher mode lets you access the full complexity of your yFlicks library via Front Row.

So head over to MUPromo and get it. It’s available there with a 40% introductory rebate. Only today.