# Windows Media Player: Windows 7-how to copy audio?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-media-player-windows-7-how-to-copy-audio/544076>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 22, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-media-player-windows-7-how-to-copy-audio/544076 "2010-06-22T01:32:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-media-player-windows-7-how-to-copy-audio/544076/1 "2010-06-22T01:32:52Z")

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I have Windows 7. One of the sites that I visit has a bunch of audio sermons that I can download free of charge. I say download, I mean listen to. They are perfectly cool with free distribution, but it isn’t set to click and download, it is, apparently, streaming. So, I tried to do the ‘save target as’ thing, and just got the link. Anyway, the sermons apparently do download into Windows media Player, but, I can’t find a way to copy them from WMP without doing a real time recording of them. Am I missing something, or is this the only way to do it?

Thanks,  
handsomeharry

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**Author:** ![J-P\_L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/j-p_l/32/3156_2.png) [@J-P\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J-P_L)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-media-player-windows-7-how-to-copy-audio/544076/2 "2010-06-22T14:21:55Z")

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If your sound hardware will support it, you can use [Audacity](http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) to record “What U hear” and save it to disk.

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**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-media-player-windows-7-how-to-copy-audio/544076/3 "2010-06-22T15:08:51Z")

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Right-click on the saved link and select properties, then try to download and save the target URL/file.