30 top apps from Shakespeare to South Park

MUSIC 1 Spotify (free to download, ?.99 monthly subscription) With more than three million UK users, this music streaming service lets you chose from over 6.5m tracks and listen to other users' the simpsons dvd box set playlists (including Aural Contraceptive, the simpsons dvd a playlist of Charlie Brooker's favourite passion killers).
2 REM (free)
A band that has always embraced technology (in 2008 they debuted their latest album on Facebook), REM have released an app that includes all the usual band-specific features ?song clips, band/tour info ?plus the facility to stream videos from their entire career. (Nothing beatsdisney dvd "Everybody Hurts" on landscape mode.)
3 Classical Music Master Collection (?.19)
Packed with 800 complete tracksfamily guy dvd box set (100 hours of music) by the great composers including Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Bach, this app, currently discounted the simpsons dvd from its original price of more than ?00, is this year's biggest bargain.
4 Shazam Encore (?.79)
Play a seconds-long sample of any song (off a radio, for example) and this app ?one of the App Store's biggestSouth park dvd box set hits ?identifies it, before linking to iTunes and recommending other similar music.
5 Play Ligeti (free)
This interactive app from the ENO lets users explore (and compose their own discordant version of) the car family guy dvd box set horn prelude from Gy鰎gy Ligeti's 1970s avant garde opera Le Grand Macabre.
6 London PhilharmonicSouth park dvd collection Orchestra (free)
Combining select LPO recordings (recent additions include Dvor醟's Requiem and Brahms's Hungarian Dances), with video performances, podcasts, concert info and links to iTunes,the simpsons dvd box set this app sets the bar for resident orchestras.
7 Lady Gaga iOKi (?.99)
Typically pioneering, Lady Gagadisney dvd lends her name and music to an exemplary karaoke app, through which you also have access to a complete karaoke library of tracks in every genre. Cue "Sweet Caroline".
8 Bachtrack for iPhone (free
Search for classical concerts, ballets and operas by composer, performer, orchestra and location anywhere in the worldthe simpsons dvd months in advance and book tickets too.