Search matches fields it is not supposed to

[AllKind]

• [ x] I have checked the FAQ for answers.
• [ x] I have checked the Changelog that the issue is not already fixed.
• [ x] I believe this issue is a bug, and not a general technical issue, question or feature requests that can be discussed on the forum.

Describe the bug
If I search for example title:searchstring, it will return matches matching the album fields - see screenshot.
I attach another screenshot, where I search for artist and it returns results matching the field title and/or album.
The sorting is set by Genre/Artist/Album in the provided screenshots.

To Reproduce
As said above.

Expected behavior
The search should be limited to the field which is provided.

Screenshots:

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System Information:

• Operating system: Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon (Custom kernel 5.15.134)
• Strawberry Version: 1.0.20

[AllKind]

Just now I have that search result, I can't even explain. It just seems wrong, as none of the search criteria match:

[jonaski]

Make sure you do not have space between "title:" and the search term, otherwise it will search for the search term in all tags, as the actual search term for title will be treated as blank.

[AllKind]

Ah, I see! Thank you for answering! And in general for your work!
I recently switched from clementine and if I correctly recall, the space didn't matter.
I wonder if it's worth asking as a feature request to remove the blank(s) before the first word of the search term?
Anyhow I'll close this, as the bug is on me.
Have a good day!

[jonaski]

Working on rewriting the entire search, so we might improve this too.

[AllKind]

As it just comes to mind:
One thing I was always missing in clementine and I think it's the same for strawberry is a way to define a search term as "strict" or in other words "exact".
For example, as I have a lot of latin tracks, a search for very general short words like "title:soy yo" brings up hundreds of matches. It would be nice for me to let strawberry just look for titles exactly named "soy yo".

[jonaski]

I tested Clementine and it works even with whitespaces after colon like you said, so I became curious and looked into why, and I see it's because it's written quite differently, it just appends everything you type to the search query, while strawberry specifically expects a token after the colon, and ignores it otherwise. I didn't even remember this, but I remember it now.
So I made a fix now so it strips off whitespaces after colon, this way it works with whitespaces in between too.

[AllKind]

Wow, great!

[jonaski]

Should be fixed