Set Genie – Setlist Helper

Response from developer

Hi, sorry to hear you had a bad experience using Set Genie. I looked through my support inbox over the past several years and didn’t see any emails from you – perhaps the message failed to send? I do try to respond to support requests within a maximum of 24 hours, so my apologies that your concerns around the app’s core functionality went unanswered for so long. Regarding your specific issues with setlist generation in Set Genie, it sounds like something the ‘Variance’ slider in the setlist creation window could help with. This value represents the percentage by which the app “oversamples” your song list. When set to the default of 20, generating a setlist with 20 songs will actually select 24 matching songs (20% more than you requested) and then choose 20 of those at random. Increasing this value to something more like 50 would at least partially resolve the problem you described, and it’s possible a value as high as 100 could even more so. That being said, I think the ideal of the perfect automatically generated setlist (or poem, or term paper, etc) remains somewhat out of reach. Even with very advanced systems like ChatGPT, which require much more computational power and training time on massive datasets, the output produced is sometimes not up to human editorial or artistic standards. Despite this, my aim is to continue to improve Set Genie’s setlist generation and broaden its utility to more musicians’ unique situations. I’d be happy to work with you to see if we can get the app doing what you want – please feel free to reach out to me at support@setgenie.com. All best, Andrew