Search the Brave New Waves playlists
(simplified search | advanced search)

For information on Brave New Waves, go to bravenewwaves.ca.

Rationale

The web interface to the CBC's Insite playlist database does not offer a way to search playlist contents.

This page was initially set up to allow searches of the Brave New Waves playlists using the Google search engine: the playlist links on this page are bait for the Google web crawler, and once the Google crawler indexes them all, you should be able to use Google to search them (by restricting your search to this site).

However, it takes a while to get the Google crawler's attention, so the playlists were also imported into a MySQL database and a couple of web pages and CGI scripts were written to allow web-based database queries:

You can also browse the playlists using the links below:

  • All Brave New Waves playlists (single page with links to the original playlists on the CBC web site)

    Local copy of BNW playlists organized by year/month/day

  • 1999
  • 2000
  • 2001
  • 2002
  • 2003
  • 2004
  • 2005
  • 2006

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    Links

    Brave New Waves home page
    Brave New Waves playlists at the CBC (the source for this page)

    Programs used:

  • wget, a program to download web pages
  • MySQL, a database server
  • a Python script to extract the data from the web pages and convert it into a format that can be imported into MySQL
  • a Python CGI script to forward the query to the MySQL server and format the results