# FEATURE REQUEST: small feature/fix - $meta\_sep(composer,\\\\) in Composer column
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-small-feature-fix-meta-sep-composer-in-composer-column/15825
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [June 19, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-small-feature-fix-meta-sep-composer-in-composer-column/15825 "2014-06-19T14:34:45Z")
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### Author:  [@aax](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/aax)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-small-feature-fix-meta-sep-composer-in-composer-column/15825/1 "2014-06-19T14:34:45Z")
It would be handy to have the **Value** of **Composer** column set up to **$meta\_sep(composer,\\)** by default, instead of the current **%composer%**.
Composer field is usually multi-value, along with Artist and Genre (which already default to $meta\_sep), and it's easy to forget to modify the column Value manually after a clean install.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2014, 6:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-small-feature-fix-meta-sep-composer-in-composer-column/15825/2 "2014-06-22T06:29:36Z")
> [@aax](#):
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> ... Composer field is usually multi-value...
This is a statement that will be hard to prove.
I think that most classical pieces have actually just one composer.
if you tag your files in a different way then you can adapt MP3tag to your needs - be glad you can.
Also, it is not at all necessary to split COMPOSER into multi-value fields if your player uses a separator of its own e.g. WMP uses "; " to create its own single-composer-name-list.
A multi-value-field would lead to the loss of display such information.
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### Author:  [@aax](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/aax)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2014, 11:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-small-feature-fix-meta-sep-composer-in-composer-column/15825/3 "2014-06-22T11:54:17Z")
OK, maybe not usually, especially for classical music, but it's more than likely that you'll sooner or later run into a track (or album) with multiple composers.
Generally, the tags that are used by most people are _title,_ _artist,_ _composer,_ _albumartist_ and _genre_ (the bare minimum being just _title,_ _artist,_ _albumartist_). Of those tags all but _title_ and _albumartist_ are likely to be multi-value. Even the ID3v2.3 spec, which is far from perfect, anticipated that and allowed TPE1 (artist), TCOM (composer), TEXT (lyricist), TOLY (original lyricist), TOPE (original artist), to be multi-value (not _genre,_ though).
When dealing with FLAC, those multi-values are usually written as multiple tags, and they only show in column view if you use $meta\_sep(), which Mp3tag does in _artist_ and _genre_ column by default. So why not just add it to another one of those most-used tags – _composer_?