Unfortunately not. The working search is a “workaround”. He is posting a general case where often a full name (first name, last name) search will work but a partial name (last name) search will not. His search on “Preatorius” will still fail. I can reproduce exactly the same fail on my system. Did you try and reproduce it on the db I sent you?
I can also reproduce exactly the same behaviour with different searches which I have already reported in a separate thread. Maybe you missed that? Searching “Karajan” and “von Karajan” will fail but “Herbert von Karajan” will behave normally. No doubt others will unpredictably find similar cases.
No, of course I do not know that. But one example of a “last name” search fail could be a hundred reasons but two with completely different artists on completely different systems?
As an added data point. When I posted above I could reproduce the posters fail. That is “Praetorius” fails but “Michael Praetorius” works. After restarting my core, on my system both searches now work. However, after multiple re-boots a search on “Karajan” and “von Karajan” still fails whereas a search on “Herbert von Karajan” works.
Edit: Please disregard the rest of the post if you saw it. I miss-typed “Abinoni” instead of “Albinoni”
Spoke too soon. I did not systematically go through an alphabetical list of My Composers as I don’t have the patience but I randomly skipped through them alphabetically and got a fail at “B” so it must be easy to reproduce.
Regarding the results in cases like bax / arnold bax, beach / amy beach, I’m happy for the input and I see that they might not be ideal, but we can’t fix every search issue with support threads.