diff --git a/admin/app/admin/jam_ruby_users.rb b/admin/app/admin/jam_ruby_users.rb
index 4df42aa0a..d7f988505 100644
--- a/admin/app/admin/jam_ruby_users.rb
+++ b/admin/app/admin/jam_ruby_users.rb
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ ActiveAdmin.register JamRuby::User, :as => 'Users' do
 
 
   member_action :resend_welcome_email, :method => :get do
-    handled = false
     user = resource
     if user.is_a_student
       if user.import_source
@@ -66,7 +65,7 @@ ActiveAdmin.register JamRuby::User, :as => 'Users' do
       UserMailer.welcome_message(user).deliver_now
     end
 
-    redirect_to :back, {notice: handled ? "Resent Welcome Email" : "No Email Sent!"}
+    redirect_to :back, {notice: "Resent Welcome Email"}
   end
 
   member_action :sync_subscription, :method => :get do
@@ -185,7 +184,6 @@ ActiveAdmin.register JamRuby::User, :as => 'Users' do
           end
         end
 
-
         row "Subscription" do |user|
           div do
             attributes_table do
diff --git a/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/AccountPaymentHistoryScreen.js.jsx.coffee b/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/AccountPaymentHistoryScreen.js.jsx.coffee
index 93926f26d..3e6e50d70 100644
--- a/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/AccountPaymentHistoryScreen.js.jsx.coffee
+++ b/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/AccountPaymentHistoryScreen.js.jsx.coffee
@@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ profileUtils = context.JK.ProfileUtils
       <div className={classNames(leftColumnClasses)}>
         {uncollectableMessage}
         <div className="paymethod-header">{header}</div>
-          <a href='#' onClick={this.onStartPaypal}>Pay with Paypal</a>
+          <a href='#' style={{display:'none'}}onClick={this.onStartPaypal}>Pay with Paypal</a>
         <form autoComplete="on" onSubmit={this.onSubmit} className={classNames(formClasses)} id="user-payment-submit">
           {firstNameField}
           {lastNameField}
diff --git a/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/PopupMediaControls.js.jsx.coffee b/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/PopupMediaControls.js.jsx.coffee
index 004c1fe2d..264dcd206 100644
--- a/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/PopupMediaControls.js.jsx.coffee
+++ b/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/PopupMediaControls.js.jsx.coffee
@@ -119,7 +119,10 @@ mixins.push(Reflux.listenTo(UserStore, 'onUserChanged'))
       jamTrackMixdown: {}
     }
 
-  close: () ->
+  close: (e) ->
+    if e?
+      e.preventDefault()
+
     if !@state.media.mediaSummary.isOpener
       return
 
@@ -490,6 +493,8 @@ mixins.push(Reflux.listenTo(UserStore, 'onUserChanged'))
     @unloaded = true
     window.unloaded = true
 
+    @props.windowUnloaded()
+
     SessionActions.closeMedia(false) unless window.DontAutoCloseMedia
 
   toggleMyMixes: (e) ->
diff --git a/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/SessionMediaTracks.js.jsx.coffee b/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/SessionMediaTracks.js.jsx.coffee
index 0e5c3924e..08e162784 100644
--- a/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/SessionMediaTracks.js.jsx.coffee
+++ b/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/SessionMediaTracks.js.jsx.coffee
@@ -231,23 +231,37 @@ ChannelGroupIds = context.JK.ChannelGroupIds
 
     else if this.state.mediaSummary.mediaOpen || @state.jamTrackState?.jamTrack?
 
+      only_opener = false
       # give the users options to close it
       if this.state.mediaSummary.recordingOpen
         mediaType = "Recording"
+        only_opener = true
       else if this.state.mediaSummary.jamTrackOpen || @state.jamTrackState?.jamTrack?
         mediaType = "JamTrack"
+        only_opener = true
       else if this.state.mediaSummary.backingTrackOpen
         mediaType = "Audio File"
+        only_opener = true
       else if this.state.mediaSummary.metronomeOpen
         mediaType = "Metronome"
 
       else
         mediaType = ""
 
-      closeOptions = `<a className="closeAudio" onClick={this.closeAudio}>
-        <img src="/assets/content/icon_close.png" width="18" height="20" />
-        Close {mediaType}
-      </a>`
+      if !only_opener || this.state.mediaSummary.isOpener
+        closeOptions = `<a className="closeAudio" onClick={this.closeAudio}>
+          <img src="/assets/content/icon_close.png" width="18" height="20" />
+          Close {mediaType}
+        </a>`
+      else
+        if @state.popupOpen
+          closeOptions = `<a className="popup-open">
+
+          </a>`
+        else
+          closeOptions = `<a className="reopen-popup" href='#' onClick={this.handlePopup}>
+              Reopen Popup
+          </a>`
 
       content = null
 
@@ -312,7 +326,7 @@ ChannelGroupIds = context.JK.ChannelGroupIds
 
 
   getInitialState:() ->
-    {mediaSummary:{mediaOpen: false}, isRecording: false, backingTracks: [], jamTracks: [], recordedTracks: [], metronome: null, jamTrackState: {}}
+    {mediaSummary:{mediaOpen: false}, isRecording: false, backingTracks: [], jamTracks: [], recordedTracks: [], metronome: null, jamTrackState: {}, popupOpen: false}
 
   onAppInit: (app) ->
     @app = app
@@ -349,15 +363,26 @@ ChannelGroupIds = context.JK.ChannelGroupIds
 
     @handlePopup()
 
+  windowUnloaded: () ->
+    logger.debug('SessionMediaTracks: window uploaded')
+    @setState({popupOpen: false})
+    @childWindow = null
+
   handlePopup: () ->
     if @state.mediaSummary.userNeedsMediaControls || @state.jamTrackState?.jamTrack?
       unless @childWindow?
         logger.debug("opening media control window")
         @childWindow = window.open("/popups/media-controls", 'Media Controls', 'scrollbars=yes,toolbar=no,status=no,height=155,width=350')
-        @childWindow.PopupProps = {media: @state, jamTrackState: context.JamTrackStore.getState(), downloadingJamTrack: context.SessionStore.downloadingJamTrack }
+        @childWindow.PopupProps = {media: @state, jamTrackState: context.JamTrackStore.getState(), downloadingJamTrack: context.SessionStore.downloadingJamTrack, windowUnloaded: @windowUnloaded }
+        setTimeout(() =>
+          @setState({popupOpen: true})
+        , 1)
     else
       if @childWindow?
         @childWindow.DontAutoCloseMedia = true
         @childWindow.close()
       @childWindow = null
+      setTimeout(() =>
+        @setState({popupOpen: false})
+      , 1)
 })
diff --git a/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/actions/MixerActions.js.coffee b/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/actions/MixerActions.js.coffee
index cbb7916cc..90b662159 100644
--- a/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/actions/MixerActions.js.coffee
+++ b/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/actions/MixerActions.js.coffee
@@ -15,4 +15,5 @@ context = window
   deadUserRemove: {}
   missingPeerMixer: {}
   clientsWithAudio: {}
+  closeMedia: {}
 })
diff --git a/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/stores/MixerStore.js.coffee b/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/stores/MixerStore.js.coffee
index 7518f8735..334312793 100644
--- a/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/stores/MixerStore.js.coffee
+++ b/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/stores/MixerStore.js.coffee
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 context = window
 logger = context.JK.logger
+SessionActions = context.SessionActions
 MIX_MODES = context.JK.MIX_MODES
 rest = context.JK.Rest()
 
@@ -176,6 +177,43 @@ rest = context.JK.Rest()
       @mixers = new context.MixerHelper(@session, @masterMixers, @personalMixers, @metro, @noAudioUsers, @clientsWithAudioOverride, @mixers?.mixMode || MIX_MODES.PERSONAL)
       @issueChange()
 
+  # codeInitiated means the user did not initiate this
+    onCloseMedia: (codeInitiated) ->
+
+      logger.debug("SessionStore: onCloseMedia", codeInitiated)
+      if @session.recordedTracks()
+        @closeRecording()
+      else if @session.jamTracks() || @session.downloadingJamTrack
+        @closeJamTrack()
+      else if @session.backingTrack() && @session.backingTrack().path
+        @closeBackingTrack()
+      else if @session.isMetronomeOpen()
+        @closeMetronomeTrack()
+      else
+        logger.error("don't know how to close open media", @session) unless codeInitiated
+
+    closeRecording: () ->
+      logger.debug("closing recording")
+
+      if !@mixers.mediaSummary.isOpener
+        logger.debug("not closing recording")
+
+      rest.stopPlayClaimedRecording({id: @currentSessionId, claimed_recording_id: @currentSession.claimed_recording.id})
+      .done((response) =>
+        #sessionModel.refreshCurrentSession(true);
+        # update session info
+        SessionActions.updateSession(response)
+      )
+      .fail((jqXHR) =>
+        @app.notify({
+          "title": "Couldn't Stop Recording Playback",
+          "text": "Couldn't inform the server to stop playback. msg=" + jqXHR.responseText,
+          "icon_url": "/assets/content/icon_alert_big.png"
+        })
+      )
+
+      context.jamClient.CloseRecording()
+
     onDeadUserRemove: (clientId) ->
       return unless @session.inSession()
 
diff --git a/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/stores/SessionStore.js.coffee b/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/stores/SessionStore.js.coffee
index d64194f85..b7b2f977e 100644
--- a/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/stores/SessionStore.js.coffee
+++ b/web/app/assets/javascripts/react-components/stores/SessionStore.js.coffee
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ ConfigureTracksActions = @ConfigureTracksActions
       else if @helper.isMetronomeOpen()
         @closeMetronomeTrack()
       else
-        logger.error("don't know how to close open media") unless codeInitiated
+        logger.error("don't know how to close open media", @helper) unless codeInitiated
 
 
     closeJamTrack: () ->
diff --git a/web/app/assets/stylesheets/client/react-components/SessionScreen.scss b/web/app/assets/stylesheets/client/react-components/SessionScreen.scss
index 97d4fef40..e09156055 100644
--- a/web/app/assets/stylesheets/client/react-components/SessionScreen.scss
+++ b/web/app/assets/stylesheets/client/react-components/SessionScreen.scss
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ $session-screen-divider: 1190px;
     }
   }
 
-  .closeAudio, .session-clear-notifications {
+  .closeAudio, .session-clear-notifications, .reopen-popup, .popup-open {
     cursor: pointer;
     color: $ColorTextTypical;
     height: 20px;
@@ -369,6 +369,8 @@ $session-screen-divider: 1190px;
     }
   }
 
+  .reopen-popup {color:#fc0}
+
   .open-media-file-header, .use-metronome-header {
     font-size: 14px;
     line-height: 100%;
diff --git a/web/app/assets/stylesheets/client/react-components/SessionTrack.scss b/web/app/assets/stylesheets/client/react-components/SessionTrack.scss
index 795c80a5a..8197318cf 100644
--- a/web/app/assets/stylesheets/client/react-components/SessionTrack.scss
+++ b/web/app/assets/stylesheets/client/react-components/SessionTrack.scss
@@ -203,6 +203,10 @@
     .track-icon-mute{
       float:right;
     }
+
+    &:nth-child(2) {
+      margin-top:0;
+    }
   }
 
   &.music-mixer, &.chat-mixer {