Is it dead? Why is nobody making pull requests? Alternatives?

[mYnDstrEAm]

The last commit was two years ago, many files haven't been changed for around five years, and even basic issues like making playlists searchable (#729) haven't been implemented for over 3.5 years.

The app seems to be fairly popular and for a common use-case (playing music): why is nobody adopting the repo and/or starts making pull-requests that closes some issues?

What are the alternatives to the app, is there any stable open source music player for Android that is better than Phonograph? I only know of Shuttle and Timber. TimberX so far isn't as good as Phonograph and has fewer features. So currently the best option seems to be Shuttle...is there are comparison between the two and are there other music players that are as good? https://github.com/timusus/Shuttle The problem is that it isn't actively developed either (last commit 3 years ago).

Here is a fork of Phonograph that's more active: should people switch to it? If so, it probably should be linked in the readme here and issues from here should get copied there. https://github.com/AdrienPoupa/VinylMusicPlayer

Other alternatives I found (a comparison would be useful): Vanilla Music Player, Simple-Music-Player, Odyssey Music Player, BlackHole.

[OxygenCobalt]

After the absolute gutting of storage functionality in Android 11, it seems like kabouzeid gave up on phonograph and moved on to other projects. It's unlikely he will ever update the project or point users to successors.

Every fork of Phonograph (Vinyl, Retro, probably Phonograph Plus too) also ends up unmaintained since working with the code in modern android is simply impossible over a long enough period of time. Vanilla is unmaintained for the same reasons as Phonograph. TimberX is unmaintained. Shuttle has been superceded by Shuttle+ (Which is paid).

I'm really biased since I'm the maintainer of Auxio, but I would consider the successors to Phonograph to be any player that is actually built from the ground-up to support modern android and is actively maintained. Trying to salvage the phonograph project is fruitless.

I would generally recommend Simple Music Player as a replacement for Phonograph. It has similar functionality, it works on modern versions, and is actively maintained.

[Jan200101]

I would not call Auxio a successor of Phonograph when it lacks features preventing it from being a drop-in solution.

[ildar]

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.poupa.vinylmusicplayer

[OxygenCobalt]

Yeah, I know @Jan200101. I'm a bit of a perfectionist and still haven't done playlists simply due to how I want them to be as well-implemented as possible (Not based on the buggy system playlists, good database design, no janky UI). I'd imagine my app will be on-par with Phonograph when I am actually able to get playlists done.