Try to be precise. By default, text matching is performed strictly. This means that to search for the album In the spotlight with Madonna, just searching for the word spotlight will find Spotlight on Bee Gees however it won't find the Madonna title. Searching for In the spotlight however will. Choosing Flexible text matching will however find find all titles that contain the wordSpotlight, not just starting with it.
When choosing what keyword(s) to search on, avoid common words such as 'a', 'the', 'and' etc.
Searching is case-insensitive, so to match 'Queen' you can use 'queen' or 'QUEEN'.
You can use the barcode or Catalogue number fields to match with part of a number where the last digits are unknown, but not if the first digits are unknown.
When searching for an artist by strict text matching, remember that artists are stored as surname, firstname(s). Therefore, 'Jarre' will find Jarre, Jean Michel but 'Jean' will not, unless flexible text matching is chosen.
If searching for an actor/actress, use 'Lastname, Firstname' format, i.e, to find films starring Charlton Heston you would enter 'Heston, Charlton' or just 'Heston'.