Oh definitely. Governments for sure have internal studies. My interest is exposing that publicly, since there's plenty of bot claims in communities but not a lot of real theory on detecting them or how they integrate and coordinate and spread into successfully

In any case, Cambridge analytica... Was being used for a specific purpose politically, I think. What I'm saying is make information public so we can verifiably see how people are manipulated on social media to... Idk spark discussion, cite, build defense for, etc.

Lmao wow how is that basically a throwback from another era

Holy shit what???

Mastering though isn't anything magical. It makes your music sound consistent across most listening devices, and typically match the tone and dynamics to stuff of similar genre. Nothing to worry about, if you have a good mix, the master is easy. Now, getting a good mix....... 👀

😂 Well, If you're relatively new to production, I'd encourage trying to do serial releases first, it's easy to get caught up in an entire album. Easier to feel a sense of progress, and get practice finishing ideas, get more feedback etc. Not to discourage the desire to make an album!

Mostly its negligible. The real takeaway is that it all pretty much doesn't matter, do what you find fun and sounds good to you, and maybe hire a mastering engineer when you're done 😛 don't worry about having an opinion on it, it's wasted brain cells

much of this discussion is covered fairly authoritatively here: wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?ti...

And about "stores far more data than a CD could", it's worth understanding the reality of the nyquist theorem. at 48khz, there's about nothing that could be recorded in this format that a human could distinguish from reality. even at cd 41khz no blind test has concluded distinguishability AFAIK

Unfortuantely I don't think vinyl can be considered a lossless format. It is limited in frequency range, and definitely has worse dynamic range than most good digital formats, not to mention there is no stereo below a certain frequency range for vinyl.