Little South is where the artists come to play - created with the goal of supporting and promoting local DJs and Producers in West Cornwall, UK, who specialize in various genres of dance music. The enthusiastic response from the Cornish nightlife community was overwhelming, allowing Little South to become a crucial platform for local artists seeking exposure at events. As time went on, our reach expanded beyond Cornwall and encompassed artists and events from across the entire South West of England, UK. One of our defining features has been the opportunity to showcase DJ mixes through our podcast series. Since our establishment, we have actively published podcast mixes from some of the most talented DJs in the South West. These mixes serve as a testament to the exceptional skills and creativity of our region's DJs, providing a platform for them to showcase their talent to a wider audience.

At Little South, we have a strong commitment to nurturing nightlife and live music events. A crucial aspect of our work is event promotion, which we prioritize and strive to excel at. Our dedicated team actively seeks out localized, independent music events to showcase and promote. Additionally, we proudly provide a platform for major events happening throughout the South West region, including specialist music festivals and large capacity live music events. By actively supporting and promoting these events, we aim to contribute to a thriving music scene and ensure that both local artists and established acts receive the recognition they deserve.

The Little South pages serve as a platform for emerging musical talent in the South West of England. Our goal is to encourage, foster relationships, and provide opportunities for new artists to showcase their sounds and events. We support DJs, Producers, and Vocalists of all genres within the electronic music landscape. If you are interested in being featured on our pages, we warmly welcome your expressions of interest.

Apple Is Killing Off ITunes And Your Future DJ Playlists

If you rely on iTunes to create your DJ playlists you are going to need to look at an alternative solution.

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Apple have killed off iTunes in the latest update to OS X called Catalina. It's being replaced by a new app called Music, and in it, your previous tracks and playlists will exist alongside a redesigned GUI in which Apple Music and streaming take precedence. While you'll still be able to load in MP3s and other audio files, and your music and playlists will still exist, a key option is missing from the iTunes Preferences – 'Share iTunes Library XML with other applications'. This is the function that rekordbox, Pioneer DJ and Serato all use to read playlist data from iTunes, and save metadata like notes, comments, ratings and more back into the file itself, for a seamless transition between the two apps.

With the option no longer available in the new Music app, and iTunes v12.9 – the current version of the popular music management software – not available to download as an individual app, once you update to Catalina, your DJ apps will lose the ability to communicate with Music, the new iTunes. That means any new playlists created and organised in Music, will no longer show up in your iTunes-connected DJ software. We've reported this before , but with Catalina's beta reaching its final phase, it looks like the XML option is set to be removed officially, for now at least. We reached out to both Pioneer DJ and Native Instruments for comment and are awaiting a reply.

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What are the options for users of rekordbox, Traktor and Serato? Aside from adopting your DJ software as your main music management tool, there's a new app called Choones currently in beta that's set to act as the middleman between your music and your DJ software, and is cross-compatible across software, OS and even mobile. They released a video explaining the issue in more detail and outlining how the software works, which you can watch below. Find out more about the Choones app here.

Of course, as always with beta software, it may transpire that the XML option returns in the full release of Catalina, with or without an angry DJ mob making their feelings heard. However, given that XML is quite a dated format, it's more likely Apple will come up with a new API that DJ software will have to adapt to, which may take some time – Algoriddim Djay Pro actually uses a different type of API to communicate with the new Music app so we expect the others to adopt that eventually. For now, we'd recommend you not update to Catalina until the situation is clarified.

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Editorial Team • 6 September 2019

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