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Friday, May 8, 2015
Important Update from Overdrive
Important Update from Overdrive -- please be familiar with these changes
In our continuous effort to improve the ease of use of the service, provide the widest compatibility across devices, and reduce support requests for your library, OverDrive is sunsetting the WMA and WMV media formats. By simplifying the available formats to only MP3 for audiobook downloads and streaming for video, users can easily enjoy every audio and video title in your collection on the world’s most popular devices—the Apple® iPad™ and iPhone™.
OverDrive has been working diligently with the few remaining publishers and suppliers to provide the largest coverage of MP3 and streaming video equivalents for these titles, but there are still some publishers that have not provided permission.
All audiobook, music, and video titles that do not have an MP3 or streaming video equivalent, respectively, will be removed from your library’s digital collection on Tuesday, May 19. The process will begin at 8:00 AM US Eastern Time and may take up to 24 hours to fully propagate.
To learn more about the sunset of these formats, please read these frequently asked questions.