Issues with Chord Search

The new Chord Search feature is a huge upgrade to the Database and I’m very happy that you guys decided to implement this.

Unfortunately though, after only a few minutes of trying out the new feature, I’ve already encountered some major limitations:

Augmented and half diminished chords are not searchable. Although the + and ø characters are displayed in the search results, they are not recognized as part of a search string. Using #5 and 7b5 doesn’t work either.
Applied chords are not searchable. Applied notation isn’t recognized and using the borrowed spelling exclusively returns results where the chord in question is transcribed using the borrowed spelling.
Applied chords are displayed as regular diatonic chords. So IV/x is displayed as IV, V/x is displayed as V and vii^o/x is displayed as vii^o. This also means that searching for ii, IV, V and vii^o will return all of the instances where these are used as applied chords. For example the first 2 results when searching for vii^o in a major key are White Christmas by Bing Crosby and Say Yes by Elliot Smith, neither of which actually contain a regular vii^o chord. White Christmas has a vii^o/V and Say Yes has a vii^o/vi:

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