I am speaking about Parole 0.3.0.3 from xubuntu 12.10 this version is not listed here! The "Wiedergabeliste speichern" Option on German my guess its "Save Playlist" on English is not saved and has no effect. I enable the checkbox, close the option dialog and reopen it and its not enabled again. Also i don't care about but noticed that when i change the display settings sliders they have no effect on the xvid video i am playing.
Strange, I can't reproduce this issue, neither with 0.3.0.3 nor with 0.4.0. (Btw, in English the setting is called "Remember playlist".) Could you start Parole from the commandline and paste the output?
The same option i just found in the icon bottom right when the playlist is active, on this place the option stays enabled and is actually saved unlike the normal option dialog. But parole still starts with a empty playlist. I get no output in the terminal at all, chanign option, playing files, no output. Where are the parole options beeing saved? I looked for a config file in my home but not found anything. I want to delete it and watch what happens then.
In the 0.3.x series Parole still used an rc-file (now it uses xfconf to store its settings), which should be located in ~/.config/xfce4/misc/parole-media-player.rc (it might also be in ~/.config/xfce4/parole, it's embarrassing, but i'm not 100% sure now). You can check that for the setting. The other thing you might wanna check is the playlist-file that gets created if you tick the option to remember the playlist. That's located in ~/.local/share/xfce4/src/misc/auto-saved-playlist.m3u. There was actually a problem with special characters in filenames and playlist-saving which just got fixed yesterday (in git), so in case all your mp3s contain e.g. Umlaute, it's possible that Parole couldn't find the files (because the playlist-file was corruptly encoded, i.e. not with utf8) and therefore skipped them. Just an idea though.
If you could test with the latest parole from git, that would be appreciated. As Simon had previously mentioned, the playlist would not be successfully saved due to a problem with special characters. That has been fixed. Additionally, we have moved the location of the auto-saved playlist. It can now be found in ~/.config/xfce4/parole
Please test this with the latest version of Parole
Since there haven't been any other confirmed sightings of this bug and no updates in months, I'm closing this one out.