How do I as a user force WMP7 (or newer) to download content instead of playing it immediately?
Right-click on the content’s link within your browser and choose “Save As”. Save the file locally and then open it with WMP. WMP6 still has the “Save” option under the File menu, and Media Player for XP brings it back. [It’ll be in future revisions as well.] For files you’ve already played back with WMP but not saved locally, you can probably find it in your browser’s cache. Note that streamed files by design are not cached locally nor savable locally, so you’d have to contact the content provider about whether or not they would allow you to download their streamed files.
