Well, they've been trying hard to sell their stuff that they charge for, that you have to read through a lot of garbage to get to the free stuff. Click here to get past the garbage and get to where you download the free RealPlayer. Note that even on this page, there's an $11.95 player you have to get past.
It took me a lot of looking, but I finally found the free version of RealProducer G2 (for recording) - Click here. Note that the free version produces recordings that can bew played only on RealPlayer G2. You have to pay the fee ($149, I think) to get an edition of RealProducer G2 that will record files playable on earlier players.
Basicall, though, for both the player and the recorder, you download a file, makig sure it's placed in a separate dwonload directory, all by itself. Then you find the file and click on it, and it unzips and installs itself. It's an executable file, so all you have to do is click on it to get it to install.

Come to think of it, maybe it IS easier to install than the Digital Tradition. I've been bugging Dick to come up with a Win95 version of the database since people don't know DOS any more. There is a guy in England who has an experimental program called Donkeyworks that does the trick, but it only works with the soon-to-be-outdated October 98 version of the database.
-Joe Offer-