Cloud Radio – the new ad-free children’s and family web radio station from hörbert

Cloud Radio is online! The hörbert editorial team proudly presents to you the new, advert-free web radio station for children and families. Fun, joy, knowledge and simply brilliant music from dawn till dusk.

Imagine: A radio station that’s really made just for children and families – with music that’s not only fun, but also nurturing, with lovingly curated content, without advertising. That’s exactly what the new Wolkenradio from hörbert offers. Here plays music that strengthens children, inspires parents and that the whole family enjoys tuning into.

Why music is so important – especially for children

Music has diverse and positive effects on child development:

  • Cognitive development: Listening to music and making music promote attention, memory, sense of rhythm and the ability to recognise patterns. Children learn to distinguish sounds, melodies and rhythms, which also supports abstract thinking.
  • Language development: Even after nursery or school, music offers a wonderful opportunity to continue developing language playfully: listening comprehension, vocabulary and pronunciation benefit greatly from it, particularly when lyrics are clear and melodic.
  • Emotional and social development: Music can express emotions, it helps children recognise and express feelings, experience security – and when you sing or dance together, it strengthens the sense of community.
  • Regeneration and relaxation: After an often full day at nursery or school, music and rhythm can help you come to rest.

The special features of cloud radio

The new web radio station brings all these benefits together:

  1. Advert-free
    No advertising blocks, which means: children aren’t interrupted, content remains focused and enjoyable, and no consumer desires are created.
  2. Carefully selected content by the hörbert editorial team
    All songs, tunes and educational content broadcast on Cloud Radio are carefully chosen. The hörbert editorial team ensures that quality, educational value and child-friendly design are right.
  3. Language development through English songs
    In addition to German-language songs, Cloud Radio will also play English songs. This brings the benefits of early contact with a foreign language, learning simple English songs and thus developing a feel for language, sound and pronunciation. Playfully and incidentally.
  4. Cloud Radio makes you clever
    The half hour between 5:30 and 6:00 pm is reserved for educational songs. In an entertaining and fun way, many important and interesting areas of knowledge are covered for children from 3 years old and especially for preschool age:
    • Songs about days of the week
    • Songs about seasons and months
    • Songs for counting
    • Songs about weather
    • Songs about compass directions
    • Songs about bicycles
    • Songs in English
    • Songs about types of fruit
    • Songs about instruments
    • Songs about colours
    • Songs for learning to read the clock
    • Songs about pedestrian traffic lights
    • Songs about left and right
    • Songs about planets
    • Songs about animals
    • Songs about countries and travelling around the world
    • …and about many other topics that make curious little children clever

How can I play the cloud radio?

You can reach and play the Wolkenradio stream directly via this website: https://wolkenradio.net

Wolkenradio is not just a web radio that you can play on your computer, tablet or smartphone, it can also be listened to directly with the hörbert music box.

But what actually is hörbert?
hörbert is a sustainable, durable music box Made in Germany that was specially developed for children. With its colourful buttons, it’s child’s play and analogue to operate – and all without a screen and without distraction. Parents can be sure: hörbert only plays content that they have previously uploaded or approved themselves.

Since the current generation, hörbert is even equipped with WLAN. This means it can also receive internet radio and podcasts – and so naturally also Wolkenradio.

The Wolkenradio streaming URL that you need to store on one of the colourful hörbert playlists is:

http://de.wolkenradio.net/stream128

The steps to listen to Wolkenradio with hörbert:

1. Start the Browser Set Mode on your hörbert, which is a convenient web interface that you can use when your hörbert is already running the Firmware Butterfly.
Here’s the explanatory video showing how you can start the Browser Set Mode.

  1. Activate the WLAN for your hörbert in the Browser Set Mode under the WLAN menu item
  2. Also enter the WLAN name and WLAN password of your home WLAN (2.4 GHz) there once.
  3. Select a playlist in the Browser Set Mode where you want to store the Wolkenradio.
  4. Click on the green “+ Radio” button there. Manually enter this streaming URL into the designated line and save: http://de.wolkenradio.net/stream128
  5. Exit the Browser Set Mode using the Disconnect button. hörbert will then automatically start playing again after a few seconds.
  6. Select the corresponding playlist with the Wolkenradio.

Let the listening pleasure begin!

Music and Artists on Cloud Radio

An important portion of the music comes from artists of the Netzwerk Kindermusik What is this network?

    • A collective of musicians, bands and singer-songwriters from Germany, Austria and beyond, who address children as equals. Great music creators are represented here, such as Maike Toussaint and the group vierdafür, Sebastian Krummbiegel, Corinna Bilke, Daniel Dorfkind, Dominik Merscheid, Jaël Malli, Julia Panteleit, Jost Knapp, Jupp Simon, Lila Lindwurm, and many other wonderful artists.
    • The goal: high-quality children’s music that is musically and content-wise well thought out, shows cultural diversity and has a pedagogical effect.
    • The offerings range from concerts to training courses to publications, songbooks and online playlists.

Beyond this, hörbert licensing partners are also on board, such as the Verlag für Eingemachtes with original titles from the Ohrenflausen-Hörboutique, the children’s music label Lamp und Sumfleth with the series “Die 30 besten…”, the Sternschnuppe Verlag with its own productions and many more.

This means there’s a strong community behind Wolkenradio that really knows how to ensure quality in the field of children’s music and brings enthusiasm for good content.

If you also make music for children and families and would like to be heard on Wolkenradio, we’d love to hear from you. Please feel free to use our contact options.

Note:
Products and services on this website and on wolkenradio.net are offered exclusively by the web radio operator. The presentation of these products does not represent any sponsorship or recommendations by the artists or rights holders of the broadcast music.

Conclusion

With Wolkenradio and hörbert as a playback device, a safe and enriching space for children’s listening emerges. Through being advert-free, careful editorial work and hörbert as a child-friendly and analogue music box, music isn’t just consumed, but has an effect: it promotes, connects, educates.

Here’s the link to the web radio player and info page for: Wolkenradio.net

We want to know:

How do you like Wolkenradio?
What else would you like?
What are your favourite songs?
At what time do you want to hear which categories?

We’re looking forward to your comments!