diff --git a/src/driver.h b/src/driver.h
--- a/src/driver.h
+++ b/src/driver.h
@@ -28,12 +28,13 @@ public:
 
 	virtual ~Driver() { }
 
+	/** The type of driver */
 	enum Type {
-		DT_BEGIN = 0,
-		DT_SOUND = 0,
-		DT_MUSIC,
-		DT_VIDEO,
-		DT_END,
+		DT_BEGIN = 0, ///< Helper for iteration
+		DT_MUSIC = 0, ///< A music driver, needs to be before sound to properly shut down extmidi forked music players
+		DT_SOUND,     ///< A sound driver
+		DT_VIDEO,     ///< A video driver
+		DT_END,       ///< Helper for iteration
 	};
 
 	virtual const char *GetName() const = 0;
@@ -64,7 +65,7 @@ private:
 
 	static const char *GetDriverTypeName(Driver::Type type)
 	{
-		static const char * const driver_type_name[] = { "sound", "music", "video" };
+		static const char * const driver_type_name[] = { "music", "sound", "video" };
 		return driver_type_name[type];
 	}
 
diff --git a/src/music/extmidi.cpp b/src/music/extmidi.cpp
--- a/src/music/extmidi.cpp
+++ b/src/music/extmidi.cpp
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include "../string_func.h"
 #include "../sound/sound_driver.hpp"
 #include "../video/video_driver.hpp"
+#include "../gfx_func.h"
 #include "extmidi.h"
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
@@ -108,7 +109,27 @@ void MusicDriver_ExtMidi::DoPlay()
 
 void MusicDriver_ExtMidi::DoStop()
 {
-	if (this->pid != -1) kill(this->pid, SIGTERM);
+	if (this->pid <= 0) return;
+
+	/* First try to gracefully stop for about five seconds;
+	 * 5 seconds = 5000 milliseconds, 10 ms per cycle => 500 cycles. */
+	for (int i = 0; i < 500; i++) {
+		kill(this->pid, SIGTERM);
+		if (waitpid(this->pid, NULL, WNOHANG) == this->pid) {
+			/* It has shut down, so we are done */
+			this->pid = -1;
+			return;
+		}
+		/* Wait 10 milliseconds. */
+		CSleep(10);
+	}
+
+	DEBUG(driver, 0, "extmidi: gracefully stopping failed, trying the hard way");
+	/* Gracefully stopping failed. Do it the hard way
+	 * and wait till the process finally died. */
+	kill(this->pid, SIGKILL);
+	waitpid(this->pid, NULL, 0);
+	this->pid = -1;
 }
 
 #endif /* __MORPHOS__ */