[sandos]

Well, my latest guess is: not at all.

It has been working "fine" for me generally for popular music. But then I was at a ice skating competition where there were some really nice synth:y music going on in the pauses, and I used Shazam on several of the songs, and I tried several times on each. It did not find a single one correctly.

Either this was unreleased music or very small niched music or something, or Shazam totally failed?

[nunez]

Yeah Shazam is mostly useless for songs that aren’t in the streaming apps, I’ve found. but not entirely useless! It sometimes matches me with stuff that’s only on YouTube.

[IAmBroom]

Also useless on older music. I have used it to no avail for movies and old TV shows.