@maiki design to be the be-all-end-all lossless audio codec. Original main target was low-latency applications like Telecommunications. However they've managed to make it both incredibly low-latency and Superior at the same bitrate to both MP3 and Ogg vorbis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)

@maiki I only recently found out that it had progressed that far from what someone else said on Mastodon, but it appears to have IOS and Android support which is how I imagine most people listen to their files these days as well as most music players and all web browsers

@maiki apparently it actually gets better quality than the AAC codec and is open source

@maiki it is technically pending come bird but all known companies holding patents on it have signed an agreement that they will only use such patents defensively