The son tells me I should be listening to someone called Andrew Bird, so I went to try to listen to a fragment or two before buying a CD. But the tracks in Amazon download as .ram - RealAudio.

Now, I know I can download RealPlayer and play them on that, but I don't want to load down the new Mac with lots of possibly conflicting software if I don't have to. Keep it lean and keep it keen, I say.

Is there any way of playing these .ram fragments in iTunes? (I'm using a G4 PowerBook running Panther, by the way.)