MM4 searching with Win 11 OS

[JoePublic]

I recently upgraded to Win 11 Pro from Win 8.1 Pro. I successfully installed MMW4 and got my entire library moved over. Unlike in Win 8.1, when I search for something specific, the results come back as if I'd added "*" to the search term.

For example, if I search for "eye" (with or without the quotes) or title:eye or title:"eye", it comes back as if I had searched for eye* or title:eye* . I'm guessing this has something to do with Windows and not MM4 since it didn't work that way on Win 8. Is there a way to search and just get the results as before? I have a very large library (>500,000 tracks, mostly mp3). This is going to make it very difficult to search for some tracks by title. For example, if I want to find all tracks with the word "hear" in the title, I also get those with "heart", "hearts", "heartache", etc. For me, that particular search returned 8697 tracks instead of maybe a couple dozen.

The problem isn't limited to title searches. For example composer:van brings up Vangelis in addition to Van McCoy, which it shouldn't. But at least there I can make use of nodes to quickly get to just Van McCoy or Van Stephenson or whoever I want. That's not an option for song titles.

(For unrelated reasons, I can't upgrade to MMW5 at this time even though I'm Gold Lifetime. But if that's the only answer, I'd like to know.)

Can anyone offer some help or insight on this?

Thanks,
Richard a/k/a username JoePublic

[Lowlander]

MediaMonkey 5 is also an old release, the current release is MediaMonkey 2024.

You may want to check the Search setting: https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHelp:Search/4.0 Search in MediaMonkey is not impacted by Windows.