I get that the shutdown does now shut it all down and yeah===
I am reinstalling this again..

I reached that point where every time I play a playlist it just freezes and crashes to death.

again it did go for many times by now. --- so I will do that reinstall and put the milkdrop presets in there folder and so on--- set the preferences again .. and such === redo the settings for milkdrop and load all the playlists into it the new version I just uninstalled it .. after a complete restart with continued no starts.
it seems of of been easier this time the install and added details that have to be added each time.. but yeah I will probably post at the time I have to install again..

but if I get like 20 starts that work I will be happy such that I had about 15 starts that keep working on the last install=--=