diff --git a/utils/search/backends/solr9pysolr.py b/utils/search/backends/solr9pysolr.py
index 54c195852..7b23f7a94 100644
--- a/utils/search/backends/solr9pysolr.py
+++ b/utils/search/backends/solr9pysolr.py
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ def search_process_filter(self, query_filter, only_sounds_within_ids=False, only
         # Add type suffix to human-readable audio analyzer descriptor names which is needed for solr dynamic fields
         query_filter = solr555pysolr.add_solr_suffix_to_dynamic_fieldnames_in_filter(query_filter)
 
+        # When filtering by the created field, use the `created_range` DateRangeType field instead
+        # which include the ability to filter on exact values and ranges of values.
         if 'created:' in query_filter:
             query_filter = query_filter.replace('created:', 'created_range:')
 
diff --git a/utils/search/solr9.0.0/cores/freesound/schema.xml b/utils/search/solr9.0.0/cores/freesound/schema.xml
index 4183bb83f..77c876c8c 100644
--- a/utils/search/solr9.0.0/cores/freesound/schema.xml
+++ b/utils/search/solr9.0.0/cores/freesound/schema.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!-- Solr managed schema - automatically generated - DO NOT EDIT -->
 <schema name="default-config" version="1.6">
   <uniqueKey>id</uniqueKey>
   <fieldType name="_nest_path_" class="solr.NestPathField" maxCharsForDocValues="-1" omitNorms="true" omitTermFreqAndPositions="true" stored="false" multiValued="false"/>
@@ -133,15 +132,7 @@
       <filter name="removeDuplicates"/>
     </analyzer>
   </fieldType>
-  <fieldType name="text_et" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100">
-    <analyzer>
-      <tokenizer name="standard"/>
-      <filter name="lowercase"/>
-      <filter name="stop" ignoreCase="true" words="lang/stopwords_et.txt"/>
-      <filter name="snowballPorter" language="Estonian"/>
-    </analyzer>
-  </fieldType>
-  <fieldType name="text_gen_sort" class="solr.SortableTextField" positionIncrementGap="100" multiValued="true">
+  <fieldType name="text_general" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100" multiValued="true">
     <analyzer type="index">
       <tokenizer name="standard"/>
       <filter name="stop" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt"/>
@@ -154,89 +145,41 @@
       <filter name="lowercase"/>
     </analyzer>
   </fieldType>
-  <fieldType name="text_general" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100" multiValued="true">
-    <analyzer type="index">
-      <tokenizer name="standard"/>
-      <filter name="stop" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt"/>
-      <filter name="lowercase"/>
-    </analyzer>
-    <analyzer type="query">
-      <tokenizer name="standard"/>
-      <filter name="stop" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt"/>
-      <filter ignoreCase="true" synonyms="synonyms.txt" name="synonymGraph" expand="true"/>
-      <filter name="lowercase"/>
+
+  <fieldType name="alphaOnlySort" class="solr.TextField" sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true">
+    <analyzer>
+      <!-- KeywordTokenizer does no actual tokenizing, so the entire
+            input string is preserved as a single token -->
+      <tokenizer class="solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory"/>
+      <!-- The LowerCase TokenFilter does what you expect, which can be
+            when you want your sorting to be case insensitive -->
+      <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory" />
+      <!-- The TrimFilter removes any leading or trailing whitespace -->
+      <filter class="solr.TrimFilterFactory" />
     </analyzer>
   </fieldType>
-  <fieldType name="text_general_rev" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100">
+  <fieldType name="freesound_text" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100">
     <analyzer type="index">
-      <tokenizer name="standard"/>
-      <filter name="stop" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt"/>
-      <filter name="lowercase"/>
-      <filter name="reversedWildcard" maxPosQuestion="2" withOriginal="true" maxPosAsterisk="3" maxFractionAsterisk="0.33"/>
+      <charFilter class="solr.HTMLStripCharFilterFactory"/>
+      <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>
+      <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="lang/stopwords_en.txt"  />
+      <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" catenateWords="1" catenateNumbers="1" catenateAll="0" splitOnCaseChange="1"/>
+      <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
+      <filter class="solr.SnowballPorterFilterFactory" language="English"/>
+      <filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory"/>
     </analyzer>
     <analyzer type="query">
-      <tokenizer name="standard"/>
-      <filter ignoreCase="true" synonyms="synonyms.txt" name="synonymGraph" expand="true"/>
-      <filter name="stop" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt"/>
-      <filter name="lowercase"/>
-    </analyzer>
-  </fieldType>
-  <fieldType name="text_ws" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100">
-    <analyzer>
-      <tokenizer name="whitespace"/>
+      <charFilter class="solr.HTMLStripCharFilterFactory"/>
+      <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>
+      <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" synonyms="synonyms.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/>
+      <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="lang/stopwords_en.txt"/>
+      <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" catenateWords="0" catenateNumbers="0" catenateAll="0" splitOnCaseChange="1"/>
+      <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
+      <filter class="solr.SnowballPorterFilterFactory" language="English"/>
+      <filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory"/>
     </analyzer>
   </fieldType>
 
-<fieldType name="alphaOnlySort" class="solr.TextField" sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true">
-      <analyzer>
-        <!-- KeywordTokenizer does no actual tokenizing, so the entire
-             input string is preserved as a single token
-          -->
-        <tokenizer class="solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory"/>
-        <!-- The LowerCase TokenFilter does what you expect, which can be
-             when you want your sorting to be case insensitive
-          -->
-        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory" />
-        <!-- The TrimFilter removes any leading or trailing whitespace -->
-        <filter class="solr.TrimFilterFactory" />
-        <!-- The PatternReplaceFilter gives you the flexibility to use
-             Java Regular expression to replace any sequence of characters
-             matching a pattern with an arbitrary replacement string,
-             which may include back refrences to portions of the orriginal
-             string matched by the pattern.
-
-             See the Java Regular Expression documentation for more
-             infomation on pattern and replacement string syntax.
-
-             http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/regex/package-summary.html
-          -->
-        <!-- <filter class="solr.PatternReplaceFilterFactory"
-                pattern="([^a-z])" replacement="" replace="all"
-        />-->
-      </analyzer>
-    </fieldType>
-        <fieldType name="freesound_text" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100">
-      <analyzer type="index">
-	<charFilter class="solr.HTMLStripCharFilterFactory"/>
-        <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>
-        <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="lang/stopwords_en.txt"  />
-        <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" catenateWords="1" catenateNumbers="1" catenateAll="0" splitOnCaseChange="1"/>
-        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
-        <filter class="solr.SnowballPorterFilterFactory" language="English"/>
-        <filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory"/>
-      </analyzer>
-      <analyzer type="query">
-	<charFilter class="solr.HTMLStripCharFilterFactory"/>
-        <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>
-        <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" synonyms="synonyms.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/>
-        <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="lang/stopwords_en.txt"/>
-        <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" catenateWords="0" catenateNumbers="0" catenateAll="0" splitOnCaseChange="1"/>
-        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
-        <filter class="solr.SnowballPorterFilterFactory" language="English"/>
-        <filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory"/>
-      </analyzer>
-    </fieldType>
-
 
   <field name="_nest_path_" type="_nest_path_"/>