Yes. Stoffel is free. No one should ever charge for it. Optional donations may support development, but they are never required.
You can make an optional donation at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/pkruger. Stoffel remains free either way.
No. Stoffel is independent and unofficial. AudioVault does not endorse, approve, maintain, or support Stoffel. AudioVault might not even know or care that Stoffel exists.
Yes. Stoffel is a frontend. You still need your own AudioVault account and normal access to AudioVault.
Login depends on your internet connection, AudioVault server response, and general network conditions. Sometimes it is quick; sometimes it takes a moment. Stoffel plays a success sound when login finishes if that setting is enabled.
Because audio description is not always produced for every season. Some services describe only current seasons, skip older back catalogues, or license description tracks inconsistently. It is annoying, but Stoffel cannot provide seasons that do not exist.
Same circus, different tent. Some films in a franchise may have audio description while others do not. Stoffel can only make available what exists on the source service.
[TTS] means Text-To-Speech. The descriptive narration is generated with a synthesized voice rather than recorded by a human narrator.
It means another description track exists for a title that already had audio description, often with a different narration style or production.
Opening a season is browsing. It displays the episodes. Press Enter or Ctrl+P on an episode to play it. If Auto-play next episode is checked, Stoffel queues the following prepared episodes when playback starts.
Because the extracted audio files are what Stoffel actually plays. Keeping the original ZIP as well wastes storage, especially on small laptops. Stoffel keeps the episode records and the stored archive size so it can still recognise the prepared season later.
If Stoffel has a stored compressed size for a prepared season and AudioVault later reports a different size, Stoffel warns you and offers to refresh the download. You can also use More Options, Refresh selected download whenever you want to force a fresh copy.
Yes. Use Check for AudioVault Additions in Settings. Stoffel compares AudioVault item IDs against your local index, then prompts before adding newly found entries. It does not download media files during this check.
Yes. Set the Offline storage folder in Settings. This is useful for large external or secondary drives. Save settings after changing it. Existing offline files are not moved automatically.
OMDb is useful, not magic. Some AudioVault titles include tags, alternate naming, region notes, or description labels that confuse automatic lookup. Use Manual OMDb Search to search by title/year or link by IMDb ID.
No. Stoffel indexes listings and downloads media only when you play, prepare, or keep an item offline. Series seasons and archives ask before downloading.
Stoffel is not AudioVault, not endorsed by AudioVault, not a content host, not a DRM bypass tool, not a pirate ship with a keyboard shortcut, and not a tiny honey-badger-shaped copyright exemption. It is an accessibility frontend for people who already have access to AudioVault.
Stoffel releases are intended to live at Kwagga.com, Hanif Kruger's software archive. The main site is https://kwagga.com/, and Stoffel's release page is under the software archive. The in-app update check reads Kwagga's update API and asks before opening the release page. It does not download updates silently.
No. Kwagga.com is being configured as a latest-release archive to save space and avoid confusing testers with old builds. When a new release is imported, the old public release file for that app is removed.
For now, support is still best-effort. Direct app support through hanif.kruger@gmail.com will soon be deprecated once the Kwagga.com support system is implemented.