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Is there anyway to get Rhythmbox to stop playing the current track when it closes without first pausing/stopping the song manually?

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I recommend just nixing the program until it's made to function reasonably. There are more appropriately set up alternatives. I gather that's the best way to vote in Ubuntu. – user311768 Aug 3 '14 at 4:27
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This is intentionally the default behaviour: allowing you to minimise ("close") Rhythmbox and control it from the Sound menu.

To work around this you need to "quit" Rhythmbox by selecting File->Quit in the menu, or using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Q.

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Right-click on the launcher Icon and selecting Quit doesn't really quit. That's stupid. Plus, there is no icon in the status bar saying it's running. I have to re-open it and manually go File > Quit – Nathan Hazout Nov 20 '13 at 11:56
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I'm running Rhythmbox 3.0.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 and there is no File -> Quit nor will it close with Ctrl+Q. – Chris Apr 16 '14 at 20:50
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On Ubuntu 14.04 as of today, i have to do: killall -9 rhythmbox – anjan Mar 10 '15 at 5:08
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@anjan on Ubuntu 14.04 you can close it with Ctrl+W – Ismail May 23 '15 at 22:11
    
To be clear for people like me who are new to Ubuntu: once the Rhythmbox window is closed, the controls for it are accessed by clicking the loudspeaker icon in the top right hand corner. – Jack M Oct 23 '16 at 11:26
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With some applications, typically media players, they run in the background unless you quit the application. Whenever it is open, use File > Quit or Ctrt+Q. They typically run in indicators on your panel. This is so that instead of closing when you want to clean your desktop, they keep playing.

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In Rhythmbox we use "Music/Quit" instead of "File/Quit". – Geppettvs D'Constanzo Nov 24 '12 at 13:27
    
Oops! You are correct good sir! In fact, my own player Clementine uses that too! I should probably start looking before I post.... – Ryan McClure Nov 24 '12 at 13:37
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Command-line Way

Try this command on terminal to close rhythmbox immediately,

sudo kill $(ps aux | awk '$11=="rhythmbox"{print $2}')

It's an one way of killing rhythmbox using it's process id(pid).

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thanks, do you have such an experience ? I close that but, not work? – M R R Jun 13 '14 at 11:14
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yep, you could pause the mp3 before closing it. – Avinash Raj Jun 13 '14 at 11:15
    
Killing by pid doesn't work - it simply catches the kill and restarts with a new pid. If it has already been closed, then restart it (e.g. from a terminal), stop the play and then File -> Close – user297009 Jun 23 '14 at 4:27
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Or use pkill rhythmbox – Lakshay Garg Oct 27 '15 at 10:55
    
@user297009 If rhythmbox is catching the kill, you could kill -9 it (that's an extreme measure that offers the program no recourse). Or, it may have a separate program running that starts it again on death, in which case you'd need to kill that program. – Brilliand Jul 2 '16 at 8:09
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It seems that there is much disagreement and flip/flopping on how the close-window, (x) button, etc. does/should work in Rhythmbox. In fact both behaviors have been reported as bugs on several occasions for various reasons. This one claims close == hide, while this one claims close == quit. Whatever the case, I think the functionality should be configurable so it's up to the user to change it.

After reading around through bug reports, I think that's exactly how it's supposed to work. If you read this comment in the above-mentioned bug, the poster claims the behavior can be turned on/off by enabling/disabling the Status Icon plugin:

  1. open Rhythmbox
  2. Edit > Plugins
  3. scroll to the end of the list and find the entry marked "Status Icon"
  4. deselect "Status Icon"
  5. close the window

I tried this on my system (Ubuntu v10.10, Rhythmbox v0.13.1) and it did not work. Back wading through the bug reports it seems there was a patch applied to fix an indicator-application compatibly issue that broke the Status Icon plugin behavior. I am no longer 100% sure what the current status is on all this, but I think the above procedure should work.

Indeed, toggling this behavior in Banshee is a very similar process, which actually works.

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I know that Clementine and Audacious stop playing when you hit the "x" button. Maybe you should try those players instead.

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Go to the sound icon in the top bar and stop / pause from there (under volume control you have player control) , or close it while window visible from the file menu.

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