NEW

• With the “Next Folder on End [of playlist]” option set ON, when any command or situation requires MMP to move to the next (or previous) folder, MMP will find the next (or previous) folder on your drive that actually contains multimedia files that can be played/displayed, rather than simply navigating to a possibly empty folder and doing nothing
• Similarly, with the “Next Folder on Empty [folder]” set ON, when any command clears the playlist for the current folder, MMP will find the next folder that contains multimedia content, build a new playlist, and continue playing
• If you have a playlist filter set to only build playlists of either images, audio or video files in each folder, this filter is now applied to all navigation functions (next/prev file, next/prev folder), rather than only when you're playing a “slideshow” of just the filter format.
• This brings all the navigation functionality in the Main Media Window into line with that of the playlist “slideshow” (which can play through all the multimedia files on your entire drive, filtering for a particular media type if required)
• Note: In the Image & Thumbnail Browser, if you navigate to the “previous” folder or the “next folder” using the up and down arrow keys, it will always skip over folders that don't contain any images and “play” the next folder it finds that does, regardless of the “Next Folder on End [of playlist]” setting
• The Image & Thumbnail Browser will, however, take note of the “Next Folder on Empty [folder]” setting if you delete the final image in a folder: with the setting ON, it will navigate to the next folder that contains an image and display it
• In the Ctrl-[A] About Box, you can now view the release notes for previous releases by selecting a version from the drop down list attached to the What's New?/Release Notes button. The zip file contains all previous release notes which you can unzip to your “releaseNotes” folder if you already have MMP installed.
• Ctrl-Shift-[R] to quickly rename a file by replacing all “Dirty Characters” with a space is now also available in the Image & Thumbnail Browser

CHANGES

• When editing an audio or video file, the rules for which characters can be present in a path/file name have been relaxed. They were too Latin Alphabet-centric and prevented the editing of any path/file name that contained diacritics, Cyrillic, Chinese or other types of Unicode characters. This wasn't the intention. Apostrophes will break the Export and Join functionality, so this is all that is now checked for prior to opening the Audio & Video Timeline Editor
• As a result of the above change, the “Dirty Chars” config option (see the [Shift-Backslash] Config Dialog) now only applies to the Ctrl-Shift-[R] “Clean File Name” function. With this you can instantly remove characters that you consider superfluous to the file name; for example, where files have been named with dots instead of spaces. Ctrl-Shift-[R] only changes the main part of the file name: the extension and the dot that precedes it are ignored. (any accompanying .mmp file will also be renamed)

FIXED

• The anomaly that sometimes prevented the application from closing (or being closed) on end of playlist when the “Next Folder on End [of playlist]” option was OFF, has been fixed

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KNOWN ISSUES
There are currently no known issues. If you experience one, please create a New Issue at https://github.com/BazzaCuda/MinimalistMediaPlayerX/issues and it will be investigated immediately

Keyframes

• The new wiki article on keyframes is now available at https://minimalistmediaplayer.com/video/keyframes
• There is also an example editing session at https://minimalistmediaplayer.com/video/editingexample showing how to use the new keyframes functionality to achieve clean edits, with video clips showing the difference that using keyframes can make
• Ctrl-[W] in MMP will quickly take you to the wiki

Quick Install
The quickest way to get up and running with MMP is to

• unzip the .zip file to any folder, e.g. C:\MMP\
• run the mmp-install.bat file which will register all the file extensions that MMP supports*.
• double-click any media file (audio, video, image) in your File Explorer software.

* mmp-uninstall.bat unregisters them.

Any issues, please let me know Issues

Wiki site
The fully-detailed wiki at minimalistmediaplayer.com continues to grow. The Wiki greatly expands on the brevity of the Ctrl [H] help panels by providing comprehensive info to help you get the most out of using all of MMP's many controls and configurable options.

If there is a particular aspect of MMP that you would like more information about, let me know and I will add a topic to the Wiki or enhance an existing topic.

Feedback
All feedback, issues and suggestions should be raised in Issues or Discussions

Asset files
The “…full.zip” release file below contains everything you need to run MMP: Minimalist Media Player:

- MinimalistMediaPlayer.exe
- MediaInfo.dll
- libmpv-2.dll
- ffmpeg.exe
- libeay32.dll
- ssleay32.dll

N.B. Only MinimalistMediaPlayer.exe will be updated automatically. If the zip file contains newer versions of the other files, you should update and test these for yourself to ensure they will run on your Windows system. MMP will not make that assumption and overwrite your working versions. You are advised to make a copy of the older versions in case you need to revert to them.