You could nuke all of your dynamic data (this includes EQ, tuner, playlists and bookmarks), with the following:

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda3

Make sure that you get this exactly right, or you might end up nuking your music. You can check that you've got the right partition by doing:

$ fdisk -l /dev/hda

The dynamic data partition is the one labelled as "OPUS"

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-- roger