Apple pulling the plug on ‘iTunes LPs’ format

In a letter to music industry representatives, Apple has quietly announced that it will be discontinuing its iTunes LPs, Metro reports. While LP means “long-playing” and usually refers to a full album as far as physical media are concerned, in Apple’s world the LP signifies a special music bundle that includes extras like liner notes, photos and videos. Apple won’t be accepting new submissions for iTunes LPs starting next month and the company plans to remove the existing bundles from the iTunes Store through the rest of 2018. While Apple said, “Customers who have previously purchased an album containing an iTunes LP will still be able to download the additional content using iTunes Match,” VentureBeat claims an attempt to download a previously purchased iTunes LP from the iTunes Store only yielded the album’s tracks without the accompanying content.