# Predefined list for composers

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/predefined-list-for-composers/56810
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [March 25, 2022, 11:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/predefined-list-for-composers/56810 "2022-03-25T11:44:33Z")
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### Author: ![incifinci](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/incifinci/32/6526_2.png) [@incifinci](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/incifinci)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2022, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/predefined-list-for-composers/56810/11 "2022-09-24T15:27:20Z")

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**A little help for beginners** : it is easier to enter existing long lists this way.

- Use the [EditPad Pro](https://www.editpadpro.com/) application. ( **OR:** the attached below ZIP archive contains the natur **+ the converted text file** -- of classical composers. **OR:** see [LyricsLover's free solution](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/predefined-list-for-composers/56810/13) below. _By the way, you can even use his solution with the free version of EditPad. Simply, i like this great app._)
- Open your existing list of values for the given field (for example, Composer).
- Menu\>\>\>Convert\>\>\>Characters to `u\FFFF` (because of non-ASCII characters).
- Replace line breaks to \u000b.^^^
- Copy the whole thing.
- Open the c:\Users\ItIsYou\AppData\Roaming\Mp3tag\data\usrfields.ini file (if Win7; if other OP, search for it).
- Find the right field.
- Add two more lines to the field attributes: _custom\_values=_ and _prefer\_tag=1_ (or 0, according to your choice -- see settings).
- After custom\_values= (without spaces), paste the ones copied above.

^^^ = (In EditPad...) Open the multi-line replace panel below. Insert a line break into the field with Ctrl+Enter. See the attached image.

**Example**

Existing list of composers:

```auto
Albéniz y Pascual, Isaac Manuel Francisco
Dvořák, Antonín Leopold
Händel, Georg Friedrich

```

This should be added to the composer field properties

```auto
custom_values=Alb\u00E9niz y Pascual, Isaac Manuel Francisco\u000bDvo\u0159\u00E1k, Anton\u00EDn Leopold\u000bH\u00E4ndel, Georg Friedrich
prefer_tag=1

```

**Ready-made list for classical composers** : my actual list, 310 composers. May come in handy.  
[http://users.atw.hu/robotok/classical\_composers\_list.zip](http://users.atw.hu/robotok/classical_composers_list.zip)  
At the end of the list, you can transcribe the russian composers into latin letters, if you can not read cyrillic letters. The transcription will be different for english, german, hungarian and so on users. Use simply the google translator, from russian to your language. Check the result!

 ![EditPad_using](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/8/855db467b593e31e8df646bc4e90a4dff88e9f63.jpeg)

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