When comparing Banshee vs yarock, the Slant community recommends yarock for most people. In the question“What are the best music players for Linux?” yarock is ranked 20th while Banshee is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose yarock is:
Yarock's database supports multiple music collections, which can be switched between easily.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Full-featured media library management
Banshee is not just a music player but a full-featured media player. Users can store and manage their videos, music, and podcasts all in one application.
Pro Metadata editor
Banshee has a built-in metadata editor that can edit files in bulk.
Pro Cross-platform
Banshee is a media player for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
Pro Extensions
Banshee allows users to add extensions to the application in order to customize and extend its feature list.
Pro iPod and other device sync
Users can sync their phones and other music devices with this app and the library it contains.
Pro Organizes Music folder
Automatically organizes unsorted files into Artist/Album folders.
Pro Supports Last.fm scrobbling
Pro Smart shuffle
Even when set in a random order, songs track easily in Banshee.
Pro The equalizer is very good
Pro Easy to switch between different collections
Yarock's database supports multiple music collections, which can be switched between easily.
Pro Does not meddle with your tunes
If you have spent your precious time crafting your music collection the way you like it and don't want any 'jumped up alarm clocks' renaming and altering your tags, Yarock is a good choice for you.
Pro Multiple views
Yarock offers multiple views when browsing one's music collection, including artist, album, or track.
Cons
Con Stability
Crashes from time to time.
Con The project seems dead
The last version was already 18 months old in early 2014. It works, but for how long?
Con Chokes and repeatedly crashes on large music collections
Con Mono .NET
Built on Mono .Net patent trap and bloatware.
Con Has problems with large libraries
Banshee has problems managing large libraries.
Con No ability for mass tag correction
In yarock, album covers can't be added to the files, meaning there's a lack of music fingerprint technology.
Con Lacks music fingerprinting ability
This application does not have any music fingerprinting abilities such as musicbrainz, which limits the apps usefulness.
Con UI may be confusing
First-time users may find the UI un-intuitive.