Is there another program other than Wine that I can use to install exe files? Wine seems to malfunction 99% of the time I use it. Thanks in advance.

Johnnyboy2011

No.

Works here for almost all games I try. Did you have a look at wine's application database? The walkman program is not mentioned there, but may be the other programs you tried.

99% might be exaggerating. So no walkman program?

Since I don't have such a piece of hardware I can't test if it will work with other programs. May be you can simply mount it as external storage?

Well, I traded the walkman back in for a ipod nano, since I know playonlinux has it. I've upgraded to 11.04 yesterday (whatever the name is). Anyway, followed the instruction for downloading the itunes: http://www.jonathanmoeller.com/screed/?p=3022. Yet it doesn't work and the itunes icon is pitch black in the applications folder.

Apple doesn't support Linux either. Next time you buy hardware that you intend to run with Linux, you should better inform yourself before buying it.

I know it doesn't, but with playonlinux, it should work. It's one of the applications supported.

Well, I would never really rely on something like PlayOnLinux or Wine, because there never is a guarantee that things really will work. May be they changed something in a new version of iTunes that made it incompatible, or there is a bug or regression in PlayOnLinux or Wine, who knows. Have a look at iTunes' entry in the Wine database and see that it is not really supported, the newer versions' compatibility is rated as Garbage, the highest rating you will see is Silver. Not very good.

well, at least I'll have money on credit when I return the nano. What would you suggest?

I did it that way: I got a cheap MP3-player from a supermarket that only could play MP3s (may be WMA, didn't try that) and is seen as simple USB drive from the OS. Don't need more. If you are going to buy one of the more fancy devices, have a look at tests and make sure that they don't use some obscure proprietary protocol to put music on them.
May be someone else can suggest Linux compatible devices.

Is there another program other than Wine that I can use to install exe files?
for the VERY VERY old Walkman
windows xp

then you say a nano
gtk-pod works just fine with my old nano ( fat32 format and not HFS+)

HOWEVER there is a catch - a big one
YOU MUST USE WINDOWS TO REGISTER AND ACTIVATE
there is NO WAY around that !!!

???
Sony still produces the Walkman series and comes out with new versions from time to time, what makes you think the OP bought an old version?

sony announced that the "walkman " is discontinued
a Chinese Co. bought the rights .


but nanos work just fine in gtk-pod

I think you misread that. They announced to discontinue the Walkman Cassette Player. They still are the owners of the Walkman brand and develop and produce portable audio- and video-players under this brand.

I have a Sony Walkman and it works perfectly on my GNU/Linux only machine, without installing anything.
It is recognized as a mass storage device.
The musical mp3 files can be directly copied from a file manager to a /media/WALKMAN/MUSIC/Artist_name/CD_title directory for example.
/media/WALKMAN is where it is mounted (can be different on another machine), and MUSIC is the predefined directory on the Walkman to contain musical mp3 files.
The predefined directories are : DCIM MP_ROOT MUSIC PICTURE PICTURES SONYWM VIDEO
So no installer exe program is needed under GNU/Linux.

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