Should you be able to use the catalogue number to find an album?

My examples came from not giving up as I am a stubborn SoB. :wink:

The trouble is there seem to be a lot of hidden tricks in the search that do not seem to be documented. If the search gurus could write down some of these items then it would help loads.

I often have albums I am trying to locate on a barcode, or a catno. And I didn’t realise that I could break my search by including a dash.

I guessed dashes would be a problem as they are stored in so many different ways due to the Unicode prettification crowd, but I didn’t expect them to be totally ignored.

Personally I had assumed that a search would swap all forms of dashes into one type for the search. Same with apostrophe’s. But that is also not clear.

Example, looking for “McDermott’s 2 Hours” I would have expected a search for McDermott’s would have put them first. Instead they appear on page three of the results. NONE of the other results have an s in them, so why do they appear earlier?

Is that the apostrophe being ignored? OR because I used the keyboard?

Edit: So why does this work:
McDermott’s 2*

But this fails?
McDermott’s*

And WTF is that first result when I add a space? LOLz
McDermott’s *

How does MHz * * * match that in any way? It should not even be in the list at all, and especially not the first result.

Surely these should all give the same results? :rofl: :crazy_face:

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