Hey all. So I was having the usual search problem on Prime 4 and that’s what kept me from going full standalone most of the time. I’ve decided I had to do something, so I created an app that reads the tags (in my case Greek but also I added Cyrillic/Russian support) and copies the Artist-Title in the “label” tag field of the audio file. This keeps the tag you see on your screen as is, but search can see the “label” tag and bring the results back. Also before applying the “English letter version” of the Artist - Title you can modify what will be written to your liking, remove numbers e.t.c The program is set to look at the tag first, but if nothing is there for some reason it will check the filename too.
Make sure to long press the little arrow on the search and enable “label” as one of the search fields on the Prime. Of course if your library is already on the Prime you are gonna have to reimport it.
What I did was all Greek songs I had, I fixed through my app, then in the Engine on my computer I selected all, right clicked and chose “Re- import file information”. Then I Synced my collection to the Prime as usual. Another way is select the music folder of the hard disk on the Prime when its connected, and it will bring all non English songs so you can “inject” the tag. If your collection is large that might take some time although the program seems to be quite fast so although I have not tried that, it might not be too long. (Don’t let the link scare you, its a free hosting site powered by LimeWire) Download install and enjoy. Feed back will be appreciated.