Re: Tagging issues between Itunes and Slimserver DB's

>3. I have always tagged multiple artists using a ";" delimiter in one ARTIST 
>tag (and likewise for ARTISTSORT).  As this doesn't look good in other 
>software, I thought I'd try changing to use multiple ARTIST/ARTISTSORT tags 
>(I'm assuming that if the two pairs of tags are entered in the same order, the 
>ARTIST/ARTISTSORT relationship will still work correctly).  However, I tried 
>this with one track and rescanned, and slimserver only displays the first 
>artist tag now.  The track also has an ALBUMARTIST tag, so could this be 
>confusing it?  I did a search in the forum for multiple artists, and I see 
>that other people have got this working.  Before I change all my tags, are 
>there any gotcha's?  Does other software generally cope with multiple artist 
>tags?

A followup to this.  I tried it on an album that has the same two artists for 
every track, so I didn't need an ALBUMARTIST tag.

I use mp3tag.  The album used to be tagged with:
        ARTIST=Djivan Gasparayan;Michael Brook
        ARTISTSORT=Gasparayan, Djivan;Brook, Michael

I changed this to:
        ARTIST=Michael Brook\\Djivan Gasparayan
        ARTISTSORT=Brook, Michael\\Gasparayan, Djivan

mp3tag interprets the "\\" as a multiple-tag separator, and actually stores two 
artist/artistsort tags.  If I look at the list of tags, it lists them as:
        ARTIST=Djivan Gasparayan
        ARTIST=Michael Brook
        ARTISTSORT=Brook, Michael
        ARTISTSORT=Gasparayan, Djivan

Interestingly, it has ordered the list of tags, so now the individual artist 
and artistsort tags are not matching, but I believe the tags are stored in the 
file in the correct order.  Foobar displays the two artists and two artist sort 
tags correctly.

I revisited the album in slimserver via Browse Music Folder, and only Michael 
Brook is displayed for the artist.

I am using slimserver 6.5.1, WinXP Pro.

Phil