diff --git a/classes/class_sphinxql.php b/classes/class_sphinxql.php
index 5fb69666..30fbdca5 100644
--- a/classes/class_sphinxql.php
+++ b/classes/class_sphinxql.php
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ public function escape_string($String) {
 			'<'=>'\\\\<',
 			'!'=>'\\\\!',
 			'"'=>'\\\\"',
+			'/'=>'\\\\/',
 			'\\'=>'\\\\\\\\')
 		);
 	}
diff --git a/ocelot-0.5.tar.bz2 b/ocelot-0.5.tar.bz2
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..602afb20
Binary files /dev/null and b/ocelot-0.5.tar.bz2 differ
diff --git a/sections/torrents/browse2.php b/sections/torrents/browse2.php
index a60b84a6..e5ad0b30 100644
--- a/sections/torrents/browse2.php
+++ b/sections/torrents/browse2.php
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ function header_link($SortKey,$DefaultWay="desc") {
 // Collect all entered search terms to find out whether to enable the NOT operator
 foreach(array('artistname','groupname', 'recordlabel', 'cataloguenumber', 
 				'remastertitle', 'remasteryear', 'remasterrecordlabel', 'remastercataloguenumber',
-				'format', 'media', 'taglist') as $Search) {
+				'encoding', 'format', 'media', 'taglist') as $Search) {
 	if(!empty($_GET[$Search])) {
 		$SearchString = trim($_GET[$Search]);
 		if($SearchString != '') {
@@ -291,9 +291,6 @@ function header_link($SortKey,$DefaultWay="desc") {
 		}
 	}
 }
-if(!empty($_GET['encoding'])) {
-	$Queries[]='@encoding "'.$SS->EscapeString(strtr($_GET['encoding'], '.', ' ')).'"'; // Conversion from period to space is necessary due to a sphinx limitation/bug
-}
 
 if(isset($_GET['haslog']) && $_GET['haslog']!=='') {
 	if($_GET['haslog'] == 100) {