diff --git a/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/importers/songbeamer.py b/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/importers/songbeamer.py
index 442a2fefd..a48a57e96 100644
--- a/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/importers/songbeamer.py
+++ b/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/importers/songbeamer.py
@@ -119,7 +119,6 @@ class SongBeamerImport(SongImport):
             self.current_verse = ''
             self.current_verse_type = VerseType.tags[VerseType.Verse]
             self.chord_table = None
-            self.editor_version = 0
             file_name = os.path.split(import_file)[1]
             if os.path.isfile(import_file):
                 # Detect the encoding
@@ -181,12 +180,14 @@ class SongBeamerImport(SongImport):
                                 verse_tags_mode = VerseTagMode.ContainsNoTags
                         elif verse_tags_mode != VerseTagMode.ContainsNoTagsRestart:
                             if not verse_mark and verse_tags_mode == VerseTagMode.ContainsTags:
-                                # Restart loop without counting tags as lines
+                                # A verse mark was expected but not found, which means that verse marks has not been
+                                # inserted by songbeamer, but are manually added headings. So restart the loop, and
+                                # count tags as lines.
                                 self.set_defaults()
                                 self.title = file_name.split('.sng')[0]
                                 verse_tags_mode = VerseTagMode.ContainsNoTagsRestart
                                 read_verses = False
-                                # The first verse separator doesn't count, but the others does, so line count starts at -1
+                                # The first verseseparator doesn't count, but the others does, so linecount starts at -1
                                 line_number = -1
                                 first_verse = True
                                 idx = -1
@@ -257,7 +258,7 @@ class SongBeamerImport(SongImport):
         elif tag_val[0] == '#AudioFile':
             self.parse_audio_file(tag_val[1])
         elif tag_val[0] == '#Author':
-            self.parse_author(tag_val[1])
+            self.parse_author(tag_val[1], 'words')
         elif tag_val[0] == '#BackgroundImage':
             pass
         elif tag_val[0] == '#Bible':
@@ -278,10 +279,7 @@ class SongBeamerImport(SongImport):
             except ValueError:
                 self.comments = tag_val[1]
         elif tag_val[0] == '#Editor':
-            try:
-                self.editor_version = float(re.sub('[a-zA-Z ]', '', tag_val[1]))
-            except ValueError:
-                self.editor_version = 0
+            pass
         elif tag_val[0] == '#Font':
             pass
         elif tag_val[0] == '#FontLang2':
@@ -303,7 +301,7 @@ class SongBeamerImport(SongImport):
         elif tag_val[0] == '#LangCount':
             pass
         elif tag_val[0] == '#Melody':
-            self.parse_author(tag_val[1])
+            self.parse_author(tag_val[1], 'music')
         elif tag_val[0] == '#NatCopyright':
             pass
         elif tag_val[0] == '#OTitle':
diff --git a/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/importers/songimport.py b/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/importers/songimport.py
index 7f5ff99a8..58c124410 100644
--- a/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/importers/songimport.py
+++ b/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/importers/songimport.py
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ class SongImport(QtCore.QObject):
             self.copyright += ' '
         self.copyright += copyright
 
-    def parse_author(self, text):
+    def parse_author(self, text, type=None):
         """
         Add the author. OpenLP stores them individually so split by 'and', '&' and comma. However need to check
         for 'Mr and Mrs Smith' and turn it to 'Mr Smith' and 'Mrs Smith'.
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ class SongImport(QtCore.QObject):
                 if author2.endswith('.'):
                     author2 = author2[:-1]
                 if author2:
-                    self.add_author(author2)
+                    self.add_author(author2, type)
 
     def add_author(self, author, type=None):
         """
diff --git a/tests/resources/songbeamersongs/Amazing Grace.json b/tests/resources/songbeamersongs/Amazing Grace.json
index a2601cc7d..54258a3a2 100644
--- a/tests/resources/songbeamersongs/Amazing Grace.json	
+++ b/tests/resources/songbeamersongs/Amazing Grace.json	
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
     "authors": [
-        "John Newton"
+        ["John Newton", "words"]
     ],
     "title": "Amazing grace",
     "verse_order_list": ["v1", "v2", "v3", "v4", "v5"],
diff --git a/tests/resources/songbeamersongs/Lobsinget dem Herrn.json b/tests/resources/songbeamersongs/Lobsinget dem Herrn.json
index d2069a687..1e210aa4c 100644
--- a/tests/resources/songbeamersongs/Lobsinget dem Herrn.json	
+++ b/tests/resources/songbeamersongs/Lobsinget dem Herrn.json	
@@ -8,5 +8,8 @@
     ],
     "song_book_name": "Glaubenslieder I",
     "song_number": "1",
-    "authors": ["Carl Brockhaus", "Johann Jakob Vetter"]
+    "authors": [
+        ["Carl Brockhaus", "words"],
+        ["Johann Jakob Vetter", "music"]
+    ]
 }
diff --git a/tests/resources/songbeamersongs/cp1252song.json b/tests/resources/songbeamersongs/cp1252song.json
index 5e92d7038..20df4a2cc 100644
--- a/tests/resources/songbeamersongs/cp1252song.json
+++ b/tests/resources/songbeamersongs/cp1252song.json
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 {
 "title": "Some Song",
- "authors": ["Author"],
+ "authors": [
+   ["Author", "words"]
+ ],
  "verses" : [
    ["Here are a couple of \"weird\" chars’’’.\n", "v"],
    ["Here is another one….\n\n", "v"]