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FreeBlues:
As instructed, itunes removed all music and Explorer removed all .tcd files in my .rockbox folder.

Hoding the (play)Hold button immediately after turning the player back on opens the player in Apple firmware.  I know this isn't supposed to happen, but I tried it twice and it happened both times.  Both times I was able to re-boot to Rockbox with the Select/Menu buttons.

Is it possible my player is whacked and not behaving normally?

Anyway, on a batttery that was rapidly dying I moved a couple songs using iTunes.  Because I was in the Apple firmware I checked to see if the songs played, they did.

Re-booting to Rockbox I initialized tag cache.  This time the disc icon showed for a couple minutes then went out.

Unfortunately, at this point I had to plug the player into the wall to get some juice.

I'm inclined to wait for it to charge back up and try the entire thing again.  Drivin' me nuts!

Llorean:
I never said to hold the "Play" button. I said to flip the Hold switch. Two very different things.

Regardless, once your iPod has some charge, boot into Rockbox and see if it has worked. But please, in the future, if you don't understand one of my instructions, or think that I've made a typo, please simply double check rather than making an assumption as to what I meant and doing it wrong.

FreeBlues:
Aye!!! - you did say the Hold switch and I wondered about it.  I even looked it up in the manual, section 3.1.2 where it says Hold Play and somehow interpreted that as another way of referring to the Play/Pause button.  Okay, maybe I am stupid! 

Febs:
Section 3.1.2 is referring to shutting the player down, so it really has nothing to do with what Llorean is asking you to do as the player starts.   Regardles, as used in Section 3.1.2, "hold play" means to press and hold the play button.

FreeBlues:
I'm almost afraid to post again, but I'm going to hope that maybe some of my questions and issues will help others down the line.

I started over with a mostly fresh battery, following Llorean's instructions (remove music, delete .tcd files,reset Rockbox, etc.) then initialized the tag cache.  It took slightly more than 40 minutes for the disc icon to disappear - not the 5 to 10 minutes reported in the manual.  (I moved over just 4 songs if that is relevant.)

I turned the player off then back on, then told the player to use id3 view.  40 minutes later when I turned the lights out for bed the icon was still displayed.  This morning the battery had died again, so I have no idea if it ever finished its process.

Just for grins, after getting a bit of juice in the battery, I tried to play some music.  Well, at least one song does play!  Thing is though, there appears to be only one song on the player.

It seems unlikely, but did the id3 view not complete?  Is that why there is only one song recognized by Rockbox?  I've once again started the id3 view process.  It's been 25 minutes so far and the disc light is still on.

Any idea why these processes are taking so long?  Is there something else I'm missing here?

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