Recently, I downloaded quite a number of iPhone Dev Center’s “Getting Started” videos, to learn a thing or two about the SDK. As I began to add more videos to my iPod touch, I soon realised that they were basically rearranged in alphabetical order when I view them from within the Videos application. I wonder what Apple was thinking when they decided to do that. These videos are best watched in a certain order!
I tried a few methods to overcome this, including creating a playlist that contains the videos I want to watch in my preffered order. The iPod touch doesn’t seem to see this playlist. I found the solution after a couple of Google sessions.
The solution to having a movies playlist is to create a playlist that contains a mixture of both music and video tracks. iTunes will complain about it when you add a music track into a playlist full of videos, just dismiss the prompt. Remember to add the video track towards the start or end of the list. You wouldn’t want to be entertained by a music track half-way when you are watching those TV series, rite?
Next, simply add the playlist into your iPod touch, and access it from within the Music application. As usual, the Videos app will continue to see your videos in alphabetical order. By doing this, I get to also watch my videos in portrait form, or in any landscape orientation I choose, and each video will continue to play from where I left off.
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