Check Set-Block Minutes Against the Booked Slot — Free
A set list is songs; a booking is minutes. Multiply each block’s songs by their average length, total the minutes, and see how far the band lives outside the slot the venue actually booked.
The proof surface
Rehearsal tallies track the time a run-through takes. This works on the performance side instead: whether the planned blocks of songs fit the minutes on the contract, before the sound-check reveals the answer.
Why the flat version breaks
Budgeting song length from the studio track
Live arrangements, solos and stage talk run longer than the record.
Planning the encore as bonus time
The encore is inside the slot; the slot is what the venue protects.
Fitting the set to the load-in instead
The slot is the contract’s minutes; the load-in is somebody else’s schedule.
How to work the set slot gauge
Opening, headline, acoustic, encore — one row per block, in the order you will play them.
Include the tuning, the tuning-the-band-talks, the count-in and the applause you accept. Three and a half minutes of body plus a minute of stage time is a four-minute row, not a three-minute one.
The minutes on the booking — doors and curfew are venue problems, but the set slot is yours.
The gauge totals the minutes and flags any block alone longer than the whole slot. Fifty-three planned minutes against a forty-five minute slot is an encore conversation with the venue, not a faster tempo promise.
What the set slot gauge replaces
| Question | Before | Visible working |
|---|---|---|
| Budgeting song length from the studio track | Live arrangements, solos and stage talk run longer than the record. | Use honest average song lengths |
| Planning the encore as bonus time | The encore is inside the slot; the slot is what the venue protects. | Set the booked slot |
| Fitting the set to the load-in instead | The slot is the contract’s minutes; the load-in is somebody else’s schedule. | Trim from the over-length block |
A local arithmetic aid replaces hand calculation, not expert review. No paid AI service is needed.
Run it on the samples, right here
FIRST-LOAD
Input is processed locally and a draft is saved automatically in this browser profile when storage is available. Reset to sample clears that draft; Pro history has its own clear button. A state link encodes your inputs in its URL: share only non-sensitive rows. Browser history, clipboard and anyone receiving the link may retain it. Optional AI use below leaves this device; it is not required.
Duration arithmetic on the counts and averages you supply. Not venue, contract or hearing-safety advice; agree the running order and curfew with the venue, and follow local noise and working-time rules for the performers.
Data note: Everything runs in this browser tab on the set slot gauge: your set block | songs planned | average song minutes stays on this device, nothing is uploaded, and the reading is rebuilt only when you press run.
Go deeper: the companion app files the same reading as a meter band gauge
The article demo above runs without limits. The companion app keeps a local history, exports the rows as CSV, prints the set slot gauge reading, and holds your drafts on this device — one free run, then $ 4 one-time for the layer that keeps filing.
The set slot gauge reading is complete for free. The optional $4 layer adds print, row CSV and the last five local reading summaries; it does not add hidden answers. Checkout is not configured yet; the article demo remains unlimited.
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Duration arithmetic on the counts and averages you supply. Not venue, contract or hearing-safety advice; agree the running order and curfew with the venue, and follow local noise and working-time rules for the performers.
What this is built on
- Method: The minutes on the booking — doors and curfew are venue problems, but the set slot is yours.
- All sample records are invented examples. The app does not fetch measurements, policies, files or personal records.
- Google’s official pricing page, fetched 2026-09-29, lists free-tier access including AI Studio. Optional formatting only; limits and availability can change. Free-tier content may be used to improve products. Never paste private records there.
Before: Live arrangements, solos and stage talk run longer than the record. After: the set slot gauge shows the working beside each named row so the reader can change the assumption and inspect the consequence.
Optional AI formatting, not calculation
For this set slot gauge, use the free AI Studio interface only if available to you, with no paid API key. Manual entry completes the same workflow for free. Supply only fictional or non-sensitive notes. Review its output against the source; never paste unresolved questions into the numeric rows.
Format my non-sensitive notes for a set slot gauge. Return plain rows only: set block | songs planned | average song minutes. Preserve supplied quantities exactly. Do not guess missing values; list questions separately. Do not calculate or add advice. I will check every row before pasting into the local tool.
Accepted schema: set block | songs planned | average song minutes. No AI response is executed as code.