[xenobioticants]

... that'll probably be as popular as ogg-vorbis. Compression algorithms simply don't benefit that much from outside scrutiny (like encryption does), so without major corporate backing, (open) standards are very unlikely to succeed.

[77pt77]

Well, ogg-opus is available in almost all youtube videos and for podcasts I usually download them in that format and listen to them in my phone.

I understand what you say and it's a shame. Opus/vorbis are just so much better than any alternative...

[kibwen]

For corporate backing, see the list of companies at http://aomedia.org/about-us/ . It's immensely impressive, to say the least.