OverDrive Media Console is a bare-bones proprietary media player software developed by OverDrive, Inc.

OverDrive, Inc.

OverDrive is an American digital distributor of downloadable eBooks, audiobooks, music, and video titles. The company’s core business is the management of digital content for publisher, libraries, schools, and retailers. According to the company, OverDrive’s inventory included more than 500,000...

 for use with its download services for library, schools, and retailers. The Windows Media Player

Windows Media Player

Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices...

-based software allows users to download, organize, and listen to audiobooks, music, and video either borrowed from an OverDrive subscribing library

Digital Library Reserve

Digital Library Reserve is a service offered by the electronic content provider OverDrive, Inc., specifically for libraries. OverDrive provides Audiobooks , Music , eBooks and video through customized websites...

 or purchased from an OverDrive subscribing online retailer. The software supports only a few formats: MP3, and Windows Media DRM

Windows Media DRM

Windows Media DRM is a Digital Rights Management service for the Windows Media platform. It is designed to provide delivery of audio and/or video content over an IP network to a PC or other playback device in such a way that the distributor can control how that content is used.WMDRM includes the...

 protected audio

Windows Media Audio

Windows Media Audio is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft. The name can be used to refer to its audio file format or its audio codecs. It is a proprietary technology that forms part of the Windows Media framework. WMA consists of four distinct codecs...

 & video

Windows Media Video

'Windows Media Video is a video compression format for several proprietary codecs developed by Microsoft. The original video format, known as WMV, was originally designed for Internet streaming applications, as a competitor to RealVideo. The other formats, such as WMV Screen and WMV Image, cater...

. For eBooks, OverDrive Inc, utilizes Adobe Digital Editions

Adobe Digital Editions

Adobe Digital Editions is ebook reader software from Adobe Systems built using Adobe Flash. It is used for acquiring, managing and reading eBooks, digital newspapers, and other digital publications. The software supports PDF, XHTML , and Flash-based content...

 (EPUB

EPUB

EPUB is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum...

 & PDF), Mobipocket

Mobipocket

Mobipocket SA is a French company incorporated in March 2000 which produces Mobipocket Reader software, an E-Book reader for some PDAs, phones and desktop operating systems....

 and Microsoft Reader

Microsoft Reader

Microsoft Reader is a Microsoft program for the reading of e-books, originally released in August 2000.Microsoft Reader is available for download from Microsoft as a free program for computers running Windows. It can also be used on a Pocket PC, where it has been built into the ROM since Windows CE...

.

On November 19, 2008, OverDrive released OverDrive Media Console for Mac

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

, which allows Mac owners to download and listen to MP3 audiobooks from a public library.