=== modified file 'xl/trackdb.py'
--- xl/trackdb.py	2009-09-08 18:29:32 +0000
+++ xl/trackdb.py	2009-09-08 23:12:18 +0000
@@ -458,6 +458,31 @@
         self._dirty = True
       
 
+def dirty_space_split(s):
+    l = []
+    current = ""
+    in_quotes = False
+    ignore = False
+    for c in s:
+        if ignore:
+            ignore = False
+            current += c
+        elif c == "\\":
+            ignore = True
+        elif in_quotes and not c == '"':
+            current += c
+        elif c == '"':
+            in_quotes = not in_quotes
+            current += c
+        elif c == ' ':
+            l.append(current)
+            current = ""
+        else:
+            current += c
+    if current != "":
+        l.append(current)
+    return l
+
 class TrackSearcher(object):
     """
         Search a TrackDB for matching tracks
@@ -477,6 +502,7 @@
         while n < len(search):
             c = search[n]
             if c == "\\":
+                newsearch += c
                 n += 1
                 try:
                     newsearch += search[n]
@@ -503,7 +529,7 @@
 
         # split the search into tokens to be parsed
         search = " " + newsearch.lower() + " "
-        tokens = search.split(" ")
+        tokens = dirty_space_split(search)
         tokens = [t for t in tokens if t != ""]
 
         # handle "" grouping