MMP: Minimalist Media Player

MMP: Minimalist Media Player is a powerful audio and video player, an image and thumbnail viewer, an audio and video editor, and a media (audio, video, image) file manager, all rolled into one.

This saves you from having to exit the application, delete the audio or video file you no longer want, and then have to relaunch the application to view the next audio or video file¹⁾.

In fact, MMP is so powerful in this regard, that deletion functionality is actually disabled unless you explicitly enable it.

There are two ways in which you can control which deletion operations MMP will carry out.

In the MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf file, the following settings are available ²⁾:

If you attempt to carry out a deletion operation which conflicts with your settings in the MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf file, even after you have confirmed the delete, you will received the following message:

Prior to version v4.0.0, all deletion operations were delegated to the rot.exe program that came with MMP.

As of v4.0.0, MMP itself carries out all deletions and you can delete the rot.exe program - it no longers ships with MMP and MMP will never run it.

MMP now provides three levels of deletion: recycle, delete, shred.
These are specified in the deleteMethod= setting in the MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf file.

recycle: all deleted files are instantly restorable from the Windows Recycle Bin. They will remain in the Recycle Bin until you delete them from there.
delete: this executes a standard Windows delete on files. Files are marked as deleted in the Master File Table of a drive and will no longer show up in your File Explorer. For a time, until their contents are overwritten with new files, they should be recoverable using recovery software.
shred: “When they're gone, they are gone!”. This overwrites the contents of each file with random data. The original names of the files will also be lost. Shredded files cannot ever be recovered.

The default is recycle. If you don't specify the deleteMethod= setting, or if it's set to something other than recycle, delete or shred, MMP will assume recycle.

The following dialog box will be displayed (with your filename in place of the example one here):

For your convenience, the file name does not include the file extension.
This makes typing a new name much quicker and less hazardous as there's no chance of accidentally wiping out the file extension ³⁾. As with all dialogs in MMP, the rename box can be cancelled with the [Esc]ape key.

So-called “dirty” characters can be defined on the Clean File Name tab of the Shift [\] Config Dialog. These are characters that you consider superfluous to the name of the file, such as exclamation marks/points, dots/periods used instead of spaces, etc.

Ctrl-Shift [R] will quickly rename the file replacing each “dirty” character with a space.

If you don't define any dirty characters, Ctrl-Shift [R] will still replace any apostrophes with spaces. This is because an apostrophe will break the Export and Join command line operation of the Audio & Video Timeline Editor..

To save you time, MMP will not let you edit a file which contains an apostrophe anywhere in its path until you rename the file and/or the path.

Note that Ctrl-Shift [R] only renames the file. If any folder in the file's path contains an apostrophe or a dirty character, you will have to rename these manually.

Any accompanying .mmp file (containing your edits) will also be renamed.

When working through a folder to decide which files to keep or delete, a convenient function [K] will mark a file to be Kept by renaming the file with a leading exclamation point/mark, ! .

The effect of this is to bring all such renamed files to the top of the folder in your File Explorer.

You can then either manually delete the other files in the folder or, better still, get MMP to do this for you by pressing Ctrl [K]. See Keep / Delete, below.

The following confirmation dialog will be displayed (depending on your chosen delete method):

You have to explicitly enable this functionality in MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf. See the audioDelete, imageDelete, videoDelete settings, above.

The following confirmation dialog will be displayed (depending on your chosen delete method):

This will delete all files in the current folder, not just the files in the current folder's playlist.
Typical usage for this function is to quickly run through, say, a folder of images, [S]aving the ones you want. (see User Folders)
Once you have save-moved the wanted images out of a folder, you can then auto-delete the remaining files with Ctrl [Del].
This can be signifantly quicker than individually deleting the files you don't want.

This is a very fast operation as all the files are deleted simultaneously.

You have to explicitly enable this functionality in MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf. See the folderDelete setting, above.

The following warning dialog will be displayed (depending on your chosen delete method):

This will delete all files in the current folder (not just those in the current folder's playlist) but will leave intact any files that begin with !.

This is a very fast operation as all the files are deleted simultaneously.

Neither of the folder delete controls (neither Ctrl [Del] nor Ctrl [K]) will touch the contents of subfolders within the current folder.

You have to explicitly enable this functionality in MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf See the keepDelete setting, above.

This functionality is only available in the Main Media Window, not in the Image & Thumbnail Browser.
(N.B. The Image & Thumbnail Browser has a wealth of functionality for cataloguing images into various user-defined folders)

The file will be moved to the folder; it will be removed from the current playlist; the next media file (if any) will play, otherwise MMP will obey the nextFolderOnEmpty= or nextFolderOnEnd= setting, as appropriate.