Create average setlist for a tour
Calculating how often songs are played and their position in the setlist, an average setlist for the tour would be created.
I saw something like this being done during Radiohead's In Rainbows tour and I thought it was an interesting idea. I have no idea how hard to code this would be but it would be nice if we could.
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Antoine V. commented
Here's the website I took for reference when I suggested this : http://www.ronaldvdberg.nl/RH2008TOUR/index.php
The average setlist is calculated this way :
- average number of songs played per concert is 25 (and so on with average songs played for both encores)
- most 25 played songs are added to the average setlist
- then those 25 songs are sorted by average position in the setlist. -
Adminsfussenegger (Admin, setlist.fm) commented
I just started to experiment with average setlists for artists/tours. It's hard to come up with something that really yields useful information. Any further input on how to calculate such an average setlist would be well appreciated.
@Kenny Rasschaert
if you're interested in other songs played at a tour, you can still have a look at the currently available tour stats, e.g. http://www.setlist.fm/stats/metallica-3bd680c8.html?tour=World+Magnetic@Aaron for the time being, we won't change the way we define a tour. Maybe, we'll implement something smarter in the future, but that's out of scope right now.
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Aaron commented
A good start would be to find the most played tracks within the date range of the tour.
Tour-date range data could be submitted by users as well or maybe harvested from tourtracker.com.There is a separate forum topic about defining the tour.
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Adminsfussenegger (Admin, setlist.fm) commented
People are voting like crazy for this idea, but does anybody know how to do that? If we could come up with a recipe for an average setlist, I'd implement it.
I thought I could do something like this:
- calculate the average number (n) of songs per setlist
- select the n most played songs
- for each of the selected songs, calculate the average position (p) in the setlist and order the setlist by this valuedoes this sound okay?
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Beau commented
I support this. DMB Almanac does it for Dave Matthews Band's shows and tours, and it is an interesting statistic.