What's new in Minimalist Media Player 1.25
May 29, 2023
- Improved handling of multiple instances of MinimalistMediaPlayer.
- Ctrl-9 now caters for up to 12 media files all playing at the same time and will arrange them in a grid up to 4 columns x 3 rows.
- MinimalistMediaPlayer's window class has been renamed to TMMPUI as TUI conflicted with other apps I have created. Consequently, MinimalistMediaPlayer was finding an incorrect number of windows with this class and assumed they were all instances of MMP.
New in Minimalist Media Player 1.24 (May 2, 2023)
- Fixed a minor issue in v1_23 where the number of running instances of the app was being registered as one less than it really was.
- Added SpaceBar pause/play to now effect all running instances.
New in Minimalist Media Player 1.23 (May 1, 2023)
- There was an issue where the app would sometimes re-centre the media window on the desktop when the user adjusted the aspect ration ([J] key) even though the user had previously dragged the window to a new location (which is supposed to cancel all auto-positioning). This has now been fixed.
- A NEW FEATURE allows multiple windows to be auto-arranged in a grid up to 3x3. Ostensibly, this is intended to allow videos at various resolutions to be compared, or duplicates compared, so that one or more can be deleted.
- Allied to this, various commands effect all running instances of MinimalistMediaPlayer.
- Ctrl-0 will close all running instances of MinimalistMediaPlayer.
- You may still use [X] to close an individual window while leaving all the others running. You may need to click the window first to make it the active window to ensure it will receive the keystroke.
- Ctrl-9 will auto-arrange up to 9 instances of MinimalistMediaPlayer in a grid up to 3x3. For example, if you launch two instances of MMP and press Ctrl-9, the two media windows will be resized and arranged side by side so that they each take up half of the width of the screen. Each video's aspect ratio will be applied automatically. Three instances will also be displayed side by side horizontally, but four will be displayed in a 2x2 grid, with each window taking up a quarter of the screen.
- You may launch any number of videos at once and then launch others later.
- Each time you launch one or more new videos, pressing Ctrl-9 will rearrange all the currently running media windows.
- The following keys now function as "Send To All" commands:
- [S] reStart / Startover will restart each window's video
- [0] to briefly display the window caption (media file name) of every window
- [T] Tab forwards or backwards effects every running media file, so all the media files will stay in-sync (assuming they all started together)
- [C] or Ctrl-[C] toggles the display of the controls in every window
New in Minimalist Media Player 1.22 (Feb 2, 2023)
- Fixed an issue with Windows Media Player crashing and generating endless exception message boxes to be "OK"-ed by the user.
- This could occur if, having launched the app to play a new media file, the user immediately exited the app as soon as the media file started playing.
- Now, the app stops the metaDataTimer and stops WMP's playing of the media file before gracefully exiting the app.