Comment by pflenker

It’s entirely possible to come up with artistic choices which precisely aim to be impossible to capture. So at times it’s not due to falsehoods someone believes, but rather the opposite - artists deliberately breaking the limits of what’s currently possible. Not a direct CD example, but one vinyl (was it by Pink Floyd?) has a special last track, where the needle is redirected endlessly, making the last track effectively endless. Or double grooved vinyls, Track 0s on CDs and so on.

But to stay with my example of the stabbed heart - even if the DB supported it, you’d still have to make choices when converting the icon as printed into the database, such as coloring.