I,ve recieved a few links to music files, which I want to save to my hard drive.

The problem is when I paste them into the address bar rather than getting the option of where to save them or open them, bloody windows media player plays them :angry:

Is there an option somewhere to disable the automatic playing of the songs, so I can save them first?

Thanks in advance, as I know someone will know a work around for this :)

If you 'right-click' on the link to the file, you can save it to your HDD, otherwise it will play the video as it's downloading.

In really bad times, I just make a simple html file with the link in there, then I open the html page, right click and save as :)

thats what i do too. or after its opened in windows media player you can just go File > Save Media As and save it.

If you hate to play streaming media from Windows Media Player:
I think you can do: Windows Media Player > Options > Network > Streaming Protocols > Untick HTTP. :)