# Combined Credits Editor Settings

The Combined Credits Editor (CCE) supports the handling of simple credit fields. This includes Artist, Album Artist, Original Artist, Conductor, Composer, Remixer, Lyricist and Original Lyricist. Further, Custom fields may be marked as being credits when they are defined in Preferences - File List - Column Mappings and Custom Fields. The processing of the simple credit fields must be enabled.

Unlike the Involved People and Musician Credits fields, the above simple fields do not have a rigid format specification. While values may be separated by the multi-value delimiter, often commas or other character sequences are used as delimiters. Further, qualifying words such as "featuring" may also be used as delimiters.

If a multi value delimiter sequence is found in a simple credit field, the CCE will treat that as the only delimiter. If not found, one or more values can act as the delimiters. You can enter the delimiters one per line in the Value Delimiters field. Spaces and empty lines are ignored. When a delimiter is textual, the CCE will ensure that the text, if found, is a whole word and is treated as being case insensitive. If multiple delimiters are found adjacent to each other, they will be ignored. So if your delimiter of choice is a comma and the word "featuring" is sometimes present which may or may not be followed by bracketed text, use the following delimiter list:

> ,
> featuring
> (
> )

The Write Delimiter field describes what delimiter should be used when the CCE reconstructs the simple fields. Note that spaces are significant unless the field is entirely blank. If the field is blank, the multi value delimiter is used.

Note that words such as "featuring" will not be re-entered when the CCE reconstructs the field. If you want to leave simple fields unmodified by the CEE, leave both the Value Delimiters and Write Delimiter settings empty. If you use the multi value delimiter as your separator all will work as expected. If you use one or more different sequences, the fields will be left intact.

You can elect to have the CCE merge or not merge names with the same credit to a single item when updating the fields. Note that Credits and People are always sorted when saving from the CCE.