Bodetal Brook & Birds
An independently recorded CC0 stereo field recording from Bodetal valley in the Harz Mountains of Germany. Recorded by Borgory with a Zoom H5, featuring a distant flowing stream and audible birds.
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What makes this recording distinct?
An independently recorded CC0 stereo field recording from Bodetal valley in the Harz Mountains of Germany. Recorded by Borgory with a Zoom H5, featuring a distant flowing stream and audible birds.
The actual source description is distant stream and birds. This is not certified as close-up bubbling water, so it is released under Bodetal Brook & Birds, not Bubbling Brook. The forest-stream track is from an entirely different source in Poland.
Original source, CC0 license, audio quality
Original recording by Borgory, shared under Creative Commons Zero 1.0 (CC0). Verify the original sound and license on Freesound.
Original field recording: 637.5 seconds. Selected independently recorded material: 605 seconds. Master 600 seconds, stereo MP3 44.1 kHz / 192 kbps. The master is byte-for-byte identical to the listening version approved by the owner.
Quality disclosure: This sound was rendered from a publicly available lossy Freesound HQ MP3 preview, not downloaded from the original uncompressed WAV. Re-encoding at 192 kbps cannot restore fidelity lost in the original preview.
Continuous playback beyond ten minutes
This approved master uses 605 seconds of independent original source, with a short circular join to form one 600-second cycle. It has no separate short-source repetition inside the ten-minute master. The seven-day static native-HLS playlist repeats that complete cycle for long listening. Non-native-HLS browsers use MP3 looping. A static HLS playlist is not an endless server-generated stream, and actual iPhone lock-screen performance should be confirmed on device.
Bird calls are part of the source. It is not a pure bubbling stream or a bird-free noise mask. Keep the sound at a comfortable level and devices away from infants. Audio is not a medical treatment.
This owner-approved audio is live, but the dedicated variant page is noindex,follow and intentionally excluded from the sitemap pending editorial review of family-level search intents.