My experience with shazam is that it finds about a quarter of the tracks I'm looking for. It's really really incredibly good at finding anything that airs on the radio or exists in spotify. But outside of that the results drop off quickly.
Yes, that's my experience as well. I listen to and discover a lot of obscure, often rare music and Shazam isn't very helpful in these niches. Although that might be expected.
On a sidenote: It's surprising that Google isn't more useful in those searches either. Often I have to search for rare releases by relying on lyrics and Google's results are plain terrible. I understand that the lyrics are probably nowhere listed and idnexed, but considering that even the rarest releases are uploaded by someone on Youtube, some kind of auto transcription feature would be very helpful.
Sure, it's a niche interest, but the Discogs user base is still huge.
