Play/Pause magic?

My new 2nd Gen. 1 GB shuffle arrived today and it seems to be fine except trying to play/pause during a song or book seems to do nothing. I have had a 40 GB iPod for over a year and it's been fine and worked as expected.
If I have a song playing and push the button quickly, it does nothing and if I push and hold it, it does nothing. From teh directions and my other iPod, I would expect a quick push is all that should be needed, but it seems to be looking for something more like the secret club handshake. (Hold swtich was away from OFF, showing the green).

Good for me to know that's what resets it, too, when customers call me with their queries. The primary reason I got this unit.
just in case you hadn't seen them yet, these documents might be handy:
iPod shuffle (Second Generation): Frequently Asked Questions
iPod shuffle (Second Generation): Understanding status light behavior

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Gosh, that must explain why it didn't come with a magic hat!
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Today I made a brave international call to Apple in the USA, realising that less than 90 days has passed since I purchased my new iMac. The phone call lasted for 62 minutes and was utterly embarrassing and genuinely awkward for me as it was totally unhelpful and very, very costly. The guy on the other side was very unable to provide any meaningful help and it was not easy for me to tell him that he was not, so I had to go on with the costly call which was mostly filled with moments of silence and contemplation (and forgetting -for the thousandth time, that my keyboard is wireless, telling me one time after the other to try to unplug it from the USB and connect it again).
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As the King says, if your friends wifi router was relatively new, it likely has not been picked up by Apple's location based information database system and thus there is no location information associated with it. So your iPad had no way of getting its location.
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invasion 21
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invasion21
You are in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum. What is your program? Is that Premiere Elements 13? If so, you are in the wrong forum where
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