Either I'm an idiot, have reached the pinnacle of male pattern blindness or the designers of the URGE interface for Windows Media Player have made it next to impossible to stop the download process.
I started downloading a playlist and watched URGE and Windows Media Player respond to my request, filling my Music folder with more than 300 songs. About 50 songs into the process, I decided that I did not want to pollute my library with a ton of random songs and figured I'd just stop the downloading process. Except by now, I had navigated away from the downloading playlist and could not find anything in Windows Media Player or URGE to tell me what was downloading so I could cancel it. All I could do was watch my Music folder continue to fill up.
Navigating back to the playlist in URGE I found displays that the tracks are downloading - so it would seem that as long as I can remember where I started, I can find out what I'm bringing down ... but there is no option I can see to stop the process! Near as I can tell, I'm held hostage to the downloading process and now that it is (finally) finished, I can begin the process of cleaning up my Music folder.
Am I completely clueless and overlooking some simple option here?
I have to give Zune props in this department, as marketplace provides an active downloads list and right-clicking on any active download provides a Cancel Download option. But try as I might, no amount of right-clicking, head banging, screaming or yelling could get URGE to stop the pollution of my Music folder.
Right now, my urge is to cancel URGE and continue to use Zune - as much as I hate the idea of yet-another-media-player on my machine.