What open audio format to use in the project?

Question

Audio

Which audio format with the best compression and not encumbered with patents, licenses, everything that can lead to legal problems, is better to use for a new project?
Small (up to 10 seconds) fragments are planned, the quality needs to be high.

Answer 1

OGG (from something big - Lineage II uses it)

Answer 2

Well, they already wrote about OGG above, and I'll just subscribe to this.
... but if you need quality and up to 10 seconds, then IMHO you should look towards FLAC

Answer 3

It is not said what purposes it is planned to use sound: musical compositions, conversation/telephony/VoIP, sounding of games, accompanying sound signals to the program (polyphonic melodies), MIDI?
Among the codecs, one can also note Opus
List of open source codecs here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_...
You need to understand that the container format can contain various codecs.
OGG is a container.