I know this particular post was last year but I just experienced my player upon car bootup displaying the message 'player settings lost' and finding it reset back to default settings. This wass not as awful to me as the message conveyed, reset 12 hour clock format, set EQ back to #3, get back correct visual. no problem. I did want to report that I guess the bug is still alive & well in 2b11. Since in my case my car battery keeps discharging if it's not driven for a couple of days, I think this is related to batt charge. It's a new battery I just haven't gone to the trouble of upgrading the alt. so the heavy amp drains it quick since the car gets only short trips. One of these days I'll fix it.