While we do our best to document all the developments from the video codec world, Faultline has paid much less attention to audio compression technologies in the past few years. While scheduling our calendar for Mobile World Congress, we were offered the opportunity to try out some of the audio offerings from German-based R&D institute Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and could not resist. Ahead of us trialing the technologies in Barcelona next week, we spoke with Jan Nordmann, Senior Director of New Media at Fraunhofer USA Digital Media Technologies. Two things became apparent from our conversation – the audio codec landscape is far calmer than its video counterpart, and secondly, Spotify is surprisingly resistant to change. Nordmann took us through the most recent…