Fit the Set to the Slot the Venue Actually Gave You — Free
A twenty-minute support slot is not six songs. It is five songs, four if anyone talks, and the promoter will not tell you which one gets dropped — the engineer just starts waving at the eighth minute of the last one. This ticket takes your running times and the slot you were given, scales every song proportionally, prints the start offset for each, and shows the trimming you are signing up to before you get on stage.
The proof surface
Free path: the ticket computes locally in the browser with no key and no account. Where an AI step helps, any free chat assistant works — Google AI Studio's free tier and Groq's free tier were both no-card and rate-limited when this page was reviewed on 2026-09-13 (limits change; check before you rely on them).
Why the flat version breaks
A set list is a sequence with no arithmetic: six songs at four minutes each look like a set until somebody points out that it is twenty-four minutes in a twenty-minute slot. Scaling each song against the slot turns a hopeful order into a timed plan with start offsets, and makes the choice explicit — trim everything, or cut one song deliberately.
How to use the support slot set ticket in four passes
Not the runtime on the recording: the time the song takes live, including the intro you always extend and the tuning you always forget. Those two are where slots die.
A walk-on, a story before the long one, a retune between two songs, a thanks to the venue. They use the clock whether or not they appear on the set list.
If six songs get trimmed to fit twenty minutes, the honest options are to cut one song or to ask the promoter for five more minutes. Scaling shows you which, before the night.
A set that has been played at the scaled times once behaves differently on the night from one that has only been planned. Run it with a clock and see where the offsets actually land.
SAMPLE DATA, NOT A VERIFIED CLAIM: The Old Woollen, Leeds · 17 Oct 2026 · six songs, 24 minutes of material · 20-minute slot · Winterlight runs 5 and closes the set. Replace these values with your own source before you rely on anything.
What breaks first
Writing the set you want rather than the slot you have
The ticket will scale it and tell you, but it cannot make a twenty-four-minute set into a twenty-minute one. Something has to go, and choosing it on paper is better than losing it on stage.
Forgetting the changeover
Most support slots do not include line check. If yours does, put it on the list as a row — otherwise the first song starts late and the last one gets cut.
Planning an encore you have not earned
A support slot rarely gets one, and an encore row eats the minutes of a song that did get played. Leave it off the ticket and add it only if the room asks.
What you pay otherwise
| The usual route | What it leaves out | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| A rehearsal-room booking to time the set | Useful, but the room costs money and the clock is free | an hourly room rate |
| A band-management app with set planning | Timed sets, cloud accounts, and your catalogue on their servers | a monthly subscription per member |
| Getting waved off mid-song | The cut happens live, in front of the room, and the last song never gets played | the song you wrote the set around |
| This page + the free support slot set ticket | Computed in your tab, result on screen before you type anything | $0 |
Try the free support slot set ticket
Six songs totalling 24 minutes are already scaled into a 20-minute slot, with the start offsets printed against each line. Change the slot to 30 and the trimming disappears.
Open the free support slot set ticket →Keep the work if you will use it again
Every song, the scaling, the start offsets and the trimming figure, plus copy and share-link, with no account.
The on-screen result is free and repeatable forever. The one-time tier adds a tangible file you keep and the saved history that comes with it; it never removes or degrades the free result.
Boundary: This plans the minutes you enter; it is not a booking, it cannot confirm what the promoter will allow, and running times are yours to measure. Check the slot, the changeover and the curfew with the venue in writing before you play.