Rhythmbox still plays songs after exit

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

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.

Related Question:

• Is there a plugin for Rhythmbox to exit on close?

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).

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.