I just posted it on Twitter and someone managed to get Shazam to recognize the MP3 so it's solved :)

I tried this myself a couple of times in the past without success, but the one I made recently is of sufficient quality to generate a match.

You can't tell us the entire story and not tell us what the track is!

Edit: heh, found your twitter: https://twitter.com/NoChameIeon/status/1426999239599611911

It's this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-mcSVj0Vew

Yes, that's the one :)

So, one mystery solved, and one memory of a good friend restored.

My rabbit hole went all the way to 1977

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm-ISatLDG0

Yeah, there's definitely some Giorgio Moroder vibes in there.

Yes!

Heh, I'm still playing that one regularly.

I encountered the same issue once. Was trying to identify a song in a DJ set and all I had was a tape dub converted to MP3. Making a snippet and playing it back to my phone through a TRRS cable didn't work to identify the song through Shazam or Soundhound.

Playing it loud on an average, bass boosted bluetooth speaker box (almost to the point of distortion) and letting my phone's crappy microphone pick up the song... Did.

Given that the song detecting apps expect to pick up songs people play by sticking their phone in the air, I would not be surprised if a signal could also be _too high_ of a quality for a match.

I have no idea why it didn't work on previous tries, my conclusion that the song wasn't in the Shazam database was faulty though, as that Twitter user proved.