How can the built in media player (MP3 etc.) be disabled in Firefox for Android?

I am trying to figure out how to disable the media player so that media files get downloaded for playback later using my preferred Android media player. In my search for a solution I found the about:config method for the desktop version of Firefox but settings don't appear to be implemented in the Android version at this time. I'm on a rooted phone so command line / config file hacking is an option if that's what it takes.

Unfortunately not as it's a redirect link for a podcast (see: http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-tech/407 for example the audio link takes you to http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/aolradio.podcast.aol.com/twit/twit0407.mp3 ) Since this is how they get paid for their content, I'd rather not try to bypass it if I can help it. What I'd really like is behavior Firefox (on the desktop, at least) used to have: click the link and it treats it as an unknown file and just downloads it.

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