Connection to Bandhelper

AbleSet is a tool that we use every weekend and it is fantastic!

For all our other managing things we use BandHelper.

In BandHelper you can create Playlists for all other BandMembers.
We have about 300 Files created with Ableton in MultiFileMode.

Is there a way or a chance to import the created playlists in AbleSet?
That would save a lot of time by creating only one Setlist instead of two with about 120 Songs.

Hey @Michael_Sommerer,

What formats can BandHelper export setlist in? Maybe you can upload a few examples so I can check how they could be imported into AbleSet :slight_smile:

Hey @leolabs thank you for your fast answer.

Bandhelper can export the Setlist in 3 ways (PDF, plain Text, HTML(only in the App))

I found that you can create in Banhelper custom fields for your songs. I created a field called AbleSet and put a number in it. Perhaps it would be possible to ad this number in the filename of the project ~001 and you can parse this together with AbleSet?

I created a lot of screenshots and example files. I will send it to you by mail to have a look at.

Hey @Michael_Sommerer,

Thank you for your files!

I think RTF files will be easiest to support. My approach would be to extract just the song title and search for that in your list of songs. So, a setlist like:

Set 1 (3 Songs, 12 Minuten)
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A night like this - Cm - 3:47 - 004
Acky breaky heart - A - 3:27 - 002
Angels - E - 4:37 - 003

Would be converted to this:

A night like this
Acky breaky heart
Angels

And each song title would be matched to a song in AbleSet to build the setlist. The matching will be fairly forgiving in the same way that search currently works, so the song titles don’t have to match exactly for them to be matched.

Would this work for your use case? :slight_smile:

That would be absolutly fantastic if it works this way!

That are 3 clicks and save a lot of time every or even twice a weekend!!!

Be aware that if you have more Sets in a Setlist, there will bitte more Headlines…

And so on.