diff --git a/frontend/src/components/explore-album-details/explore-album-details.ts b/frontend/src/components/explore-album-details/explore-album-details.ts
index 414bbbc..1de64cd 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/explore-album-details/explore-album-details.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/components/explore-album-details/explore-album-details.ts
@@ -426,6 +426,14 @@ export class ExploreAlbumDetails extends LitElement {
             console.log(`[explore-album] hydrated from cache: "${cached.title}"`);
         }
 
+        // Library-only mode: no external API calls.
+        if (exploreSettings.libraryOnly) {
+            this.loadingInfo = false;
+            this.loadingReleases = false;
+            console.log(`[explore-album] loaded (library-only): "${this.albumName}"`);
+            return;
+        }
+
         // Phase 1: API calls for full data.
         const [infoResult, releasesResult] = await Promise.allSettled([
             this.fetchReleaseGroup(mbid),
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/explore-view/explore-view.ts b/frontend/src/components/explore-view/explore-view.ts
index 548a578..d17d06f 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/explore-view/explore-view.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/components/explore-view/explore-view.ts
@@ -597,8 +597,12 @@ export class ExploreView extends LitElement {
                 localResults.artists || [],
                 localResults.releaseGroups || [],
             );
-            this.loadThumbnails();
-            this.loadArtistImages();
+            // In library-only mode, local results already have cover art
+            // and artist images from the library store — no API calls needed.
+            if (!exploreSettings.libraryOnly) {
+                this.loadThumbnails();
+                this.loadArtistImages();
+            }
             const elapsed = (performance.now() - startTime).toFixed(0);
             console.log(
                 `[explore] library results: "${query}" in ${elapsed}ms — ` +