## Combined Credits Functions

This function operates on every selected track's Involved People and Musician Credits fields as if they were being editing in the Combined Credits Editor. You can selectively enable the processing of simple fields (Artist, Album Artist, Composer, etc.), by enabling the Process simple credits option.

The following functions are available. Note that when more than one is elected they are applied in the displayed order.

Apply to all files
  Credits found in any track will be applied to all files.
Remove qualifiers
  Some credits imported from Discogs have qualifying text enclosed in square brackets following the role's name. This function removes the qualifiers. Note that no Roon predefined credit will match an item with a qualifier.
Remove empty credits
  All items which have a name with no associated role will be removed.
Resolve Aliases
  All items where the credit name matches an known credit with an alias, will be changed to the alias name. For example with the supplied known credit data, Acoustic Bass will be changed to Base (Acoustic).
Resolve non standard mappings
  Any item which has the same role as a known credit will be mapped to the Yate field associated with the known credit. eg. a credit of Guitar mapped to Involved people will be changed to map to Musicians Credits.
Apply alphabetic case of known people
  All person names will be looked up in the Artist list. If a match is found, the saved artist's alphabetic case will replace whatever was entered.
Apply alphabetic case of known credits
  All credits which match known credits will have the know credit's alphabetic case applied.
Merge duplicates into Involved People or Musician Credits
  Any item which person/credit items which is associated with both Involved People and Musician Credits, will be merged. The merged item will be in any files referenced by any of the unmerged items.
Save Unknown
  All credits which cannot be associated with a known credit, will be saved as a known credit with the item's name and associated field mapping. Note that while the Combined Credits Editor supports the application of an alias, this cannot be done in this function.
Decompose
  Yate's Involved People and Musician Credits fields format items as:
  role=name,name,....
  If you want to further manipulate the data outside of this action you may have to manually decompose items with multiple names per role. This option stores the results decomposed as one role per one person. This eliminates the need to manually decompose the data. When you are done your manipulations you can use a Format Credits statement to merge the individual items.