Comment 10 for bug 878352

It's deceptive. Unless i'm very much mistaken (open invitation to anyone wiser to step in here!), v 2.90.1 which comes bundled with ubuntu 11.10 IS v3. And the version before 2.90.1 aka 3 is v 0.##.##. This [bizarre situation] is how i understand things based on researching today.

So Matt, if you fire up RB, play a track, quit, reopen, hopefully the track's not playing. Assuming not, follow the steps to install the rhythmbox remember (name is wrong, but it's similar) plugin, from the v3 list, then repeat the steps after selecting the plugin from the menu. That *should* work. I can't vouch for the others.