  Spotify
FREE with £9.99 per month subscription
The hippest way to carry music on your handset is not to carry it on your handset at all. With Spotify's streaming music library, you can avoid clogging up your hard drive with mp3s and access millions of tracks to suit any moment.
By syncing tracks you can keep them available to listen to offline - and the huge choice of tunes to include in your playlist will have friends thinking you've raided a record store.
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 Discovr Music
£1.49
Trawling the airwaves to stay on top of new music talent can be a time-consuming business. If you know what you love, type the artist's name into this best-selling app and a nifty graphic serves up six or more suggestions based on similar styles. Tap each to start new chains of recommendations, read bios and listen to song snippets at your leisure.
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  Shazam
FREE for iPhone / Android / Nokia / BlackBerry / Windows Phone
£2.99 for iPad
We've all heard a cracking tune, whistled it all day long but had no idea what it was. This app instantly identifies music playing anwhere, from TV shows to taxi radios, giving artist details, lyrics and videos. It won't however identify your out of tune attempts to sing a song. Try SoundHound (£4.99 on iPhone and iPad, £2.99 on Android) for that.
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 Equaliser
FREE
Equaliser lets you customise the output sound of your songs to fit any atmosphere you might be broadcasting in, from arena epic to a front seat in the car. Boost the bass, tweak the treble, or simply run your playlist through the app's pre-set levels.
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 Djay
£0.69 for iPhone
£13.99 for iPad
Load up songs from your iTunes library and turn your iPhone or iPad into a mini pair of mixing decks. You can beat sync, scratch and transition between tracks like an Ibiza pro - and there's even the option to record your genius mixes and export them as high-quality files for your adoring fans to take home.
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  TuneWiki
FREE
"The she-eep don't like it, rockin' the cat box." Ever argued about the real lyrics to a track? TuneWiki brings up the words to any song on your iTunes playlist, creates music maps to see what the people around the world are listening to and gives real-time top 50 charts: indispensible for those impromptu karaoke sessions.
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 Concert Vault
FREE
If you like your music live and loud, this app is a veritable Stairway to Heaven. Concert Vault lifts the lid on a treasure chest of live shows from previous decades like Hendrix, Led Zepp, The Stones and Grateful Dead.
You can stream 10 hours-worth of gigs for free, or sign up for a membership package to get unlimited access.
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  Band of the day
FREE
Imagine John Peel in your pocket, slipping you the insider knowledge on the best breaking bands. This app features a new artist every day and includes their bio, tour dates and essential listening tracks. Be the first of your friends to discover new talent.
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 Ultimate Guitar Tabs
£1.99 for iPhone
£1.86 for Android
The party is winding down and out comes the acoustic guitar. This app is the ultimate anthology of great guitar rifts, with chords and lyrics to over 400,000 classics as well as handy tuner and finger guide add-ons. Perfect for anybody packing a six-string.
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  Last.fm
FREE
Get millions of songs in personalised playlists and share your faves via Twitter and Facebook. Just pop in a favourite artist and this app puts together lists of similar songs. Like or dislike tracks to improve recommendations, purchase them via iTunes and check out the band's gigs in the handy calendar. Genius.
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