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Frequently asked questions

Mother Earth Radio is a private project. We use vinyl records and hi-res audio files that are sent in 192khz/24bit. The music is tuned down to a special chamber tone. The station is financed out of my own pocket.

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  • Use an Ethernet cable connection
  • Does the stream work with VLC?
Crackling occurs with records, the dust on the record causes the needle to crack.

Pioneering work takes its toll. Unfortunately, the FLAC format as an Internet stream cannot transport metadata.
We provide the metadata via an extra API; not every platform has integrated this data yet.

The selection of pieces is based on musical quality and the lyrics, but not on musical taste or genre. Read more about it here.

Mother’s Kitchen:

  • Rega TAD 20th Anniversary
  • Pro-Ject Phono Box DS 2
  • RME ADI-2 Pro FS
  • Slientwire Series 5 Cable
  • Supra LoRad MD08DC-EU Mark 3.1

Audio Lab:

  • Linn Sondek LP-12 turntable with Kuetso Black needle
  • Hexmat “Eclipse” – DS Audio “Ionizer”
  • EAR Yoshino 868 pre-amp
  • RME ADI2-Pro FS R
  • In-Acoustic Reference Cable
  • In-Acoustics AC-4500 power filter

Recording is done in SondForge Pro, editing in Samplitude

Mother Earth Radio:

Mother Earth Instrumental

Mother Earth Klassik:

Mother Earth Jazz:

Developer API:

https://motherearth.streamserver24.com/api/nowplaying

Mother Earth pays its fees to the artists and has a licence for broadcasting in
Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Malta, Andorra, Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy (incl. Vatican City), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Switzerland, Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Bahrain, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Djibouti, Egypt, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mauritania, Montenegro, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, Yemen
Russian citizens are entitled to listen to whatever they want if the service participates in the global music infrastructure and is licensed in it’s home country.

Mother Earth supports the peace efforts in the Loudness War. We therefore transmit at a level of
-23db LUFS
in accordance with the recommendation of the European Broadcasting Union EBU R 128.