I found another album containing multiple artist tags, and this one will
probably provide the best insight into what might be going on.  The
album is by a single artist (Chris Botti), but several of the tracks
have multiple artist tags listed, and the artists represented in the
artist tags varies by track.  For example:

Track 01:  
ARTIST = Chris Botti

Track 02:  
ARTIST = Chris Botti; Paula Cole
ARTIST = Paula Cole

Track 06:
ARTIST = Chris Botti
ARTIST = Chris Botti; Billy Childs

Track 08: 
ARTIST = Chris Botti
ARTIST = Chris Botti; Billy Childs; Dominic Miller; Sting
ARTIST = Sting

All of these have a BAND tag (which Tag & Rename calls the ALBUMARTIST
tag) of Chris Botti.

Now, on to the behavior:  This album displays properly in the
SlimServer web interface (most likely because of the ALBUMARTIST tag -
I believe that SlimServer uses this tag to represent the artist if the
tag exists); when you click on a track that has multiple ARTIST tags,
the web interface shows all of the artists listed as "Track Artists"
... for example, for track 08, SlimServer shows
Album Artist:  Chris Botti
Track Artists: Chris Botti, Sting, Chris Botti; Billy Childs; Dominic
Miller; Sting
Notice that SlimServer has just blindly listed all the ARTIST tags, one
after another ... hence Chris Botti and Sting are both listed twice.

In Moose, under the "library" tab of the library tree, this entire
album (all tracks) shows up under the artist name of "Chris Botti;
Billy Childs; Dominic Miller; Sting".  For whatever reason, Moose
picked what appears to be the longest ARTIST string on the album, and
applied that as the artist for all the tracks on the album.  By the
way, this album does NOT show up under the other artists (for example,
it is not listed in Moose under "Sting").

Under the "Server" tab of the Moose Library Tree, the album shows up
under both Chris Botti and Sting, but not under Paula Cole, Billy
Childs, or any of the other artists (probably because I have other
Sting albums in my collection).

For now, I will leave the tags as they are on this album, in case you'd
like me to test anything.


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