Make sure Sync Library is enabled on the iPhone: Settings → Music → Sync Library. Without it, the app only sees songs already downloaded to the device, not your full iCloud Music Library. Also confirm your Apple Music subscription is active.
Cloud-only tracks that aren't downloaded sometimes fail to start. Open the Music app, play the same song there to verify the track itself is playable, then return to the Tyrant.
Hold the reign line (the REIGN heading at the top of the court) for 1.5 seconds. A heavy haptic confirms, the decree is revoked, and you're returned to the welcome screen. A single tap on the same line opens The Dossier, your record of past reigns.
Yes. A pardon loves the song and gathers it into a playlist called The Pardoned. A banishment dislikes the song and files it in The Block. Both playlists live in your own Apple Music library, and rescinding a banishment clears the dislike.
Banishment drops the song from your rotation for good, writes a dislike in Apple Music, and files the name in a The Block playlist in your own library. The song itself stays until it is struck. Apple permits no iPhone app to remove a song from an Apple Music library, so removal happens one of two ways: The Headsman, a free Mac companion that strikes the whole standing sentence at once, or your own hand in Apple Music, opening The Block and deleting rows. Either way the register notices and moves them to STRUCK FROM THE LIBRARY.
The Headsman is a free Mac app, and no pairing is required. Apple Music already syncs The Block playlist to your Mac, so the Headsman reads it there: open it, grant it permission to command Music once, and the condemned are listed for you. Check the names you mean, sign, and they are struck from the library itself, which iCloud then carries to every device you sign into. Nothing leaves your Mac but the tally the court is owed.
Pairing an iPhone is optional and adds one thing: the court on your phone can send a specific warrant to your Mac, so the office knows exactly which sentences you meant and reports back when they are carried out. Unpaired, the Headsman simply takes The Block as it finds it. Fetch him at starveyouralgorithm.com; he is notarized by Apple and asks for no tribute.
Yes, by hand, and the court is built for it. The Block is a real playlist in your own Apple Music, so open it in the Music app, press and hold a row, delete it from your library, and work down the list. The register notices on its own and moves each one to STRUCK FROM THE LIBRARY. The Mac companion does the same job in one stroke; it is faster, not different.
Every banishment writes a permanent row in The Block, and the register groups them. AWAITING THE AXE stands condemned and still sits in your library. STRUCK FROM THE LIBRARY is gone, by the Headsman or by your own hand. SPARED walked free; the row remains, as record. Export and amnesty reach the standing sentence only.
The court draws one permutation per reign: every song exactly once, in the order drawn. You get what you get. When the last subject has performed, the reign concludes and the next begins with a fresh shuffle.
After the gallows fires, the bar drains for two seconds; tap it while it drains to undo. Past that window, open The Block and RESCIND the entry. The song rejoins the reign and its dislike is cleared. The register moves the row to SPARED; the record outlives the sentence.
iPad: yes, the same build runs on iPad. Android: a native app exists and is temporarily withdrawn while a sign-in fault is repaired; it returns shortly. Mac and desktop: the browser court at starveyouralgorithm.com holds session in desktop browsers. Apple Watch: no. Spotify: free seats, by waitlist, on the site.
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