How to save mpegs, avi's etc

[Athlete]

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

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

[mikeh420]

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.

[Shiromagius]

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

[RadiationBoy]

Quote:

Originally posted by Shiromagius@Mar 17 2003, 04:00 AM
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.

[~*McoreD*~]

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.