feat(android): a name is not a link on a phone, the menu carries it

Every track, album and artist name in the app navigates through
`utils/explore-link.ts`, and every sentence of how it does that is a
desktop compromise: the navigation is held for one double-click
interval so double-clicking the row can still play it, and the target
is a few characters of text inside a row. On touch that is a delay on
an ambiguous target, and since #63 the row's own tap claims the click
anyway -- so the link was unreachable as well as fiddly.

So below the phone breakpoint a name renders as plain text and the
row's context menu carries the destination instead: `go-to-menu.ts`
draws "Go to Artist" / "Go to Album" under exactly the condition the
link is not, using `explore-link`'s own exported routing so an untagged
entity reaches the library page by the same lookup.

Three things this leans on. Suppressing a link with no menu behind it
is not a smaller affordance but a destination the phone cannot reach,
so `keepOnPhone` is the exception for the three surfaces with no row
menu. The items are drawn for a single selection only, which is the
Play item's rule one step on. And there is no "Go to Genre", because
no row renders a genre link to lose -- that would be new navigation
rather than a replacement.

Closes #67

.planning/NOTES.md

@@ -4912,3 +4912,39 @@ bridge leaves the wizard up with its "Get Started" button correctly
 disabled — it gates on a directory chosen *in the wizard*, and the
 existing-library check runs once, on mount. A reload clears it. Nothing
 is broken; it cost twenty minutes of believing a tap had been swallowed.
+
+## The phone's context sheet is now longer than the phone (measured 2026-08-23, headless at 424x439)
+
+#67 moves two destinations into every row menu, and the track list's
+menu is where that runs out of screen. Measured against the running
+app at the reference viewport, one row selected:
+
+| menu | items | first item top | last item bottom |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| queue panel | 7 | 95 | 431 |
+| track list | 8 | 86 | **470** |
+
+The viewport is 439. So the track list's last item — "Remove from
+Library" — is below the fold. It is **not unreachable**: the sheet is a
+`wa-dialog` whose body is `overflow-y: auto`, measured `scrollHeight`
+412 against `clientHeight` 373, and scrolling it 39px brings that item
+fully into view (383–431). What it has is no *affordance*: nothing on
+screen says the list continues.
+
+Two things worth knowing before adding a ninth item anywhere.
+
+**The limit was already reached, and this is what crossed it.** Seven
+48px rows in a 373px body is 364px — the queue's menu fits with 8px to
+spare and the track list's fitted exactly. Any item added to any of the
+fourteen menus after #60 was going to be the one that overflowed; the
+first one simply happened to be this.
+
+**The measurement has to be taken with a row selected**, since the
+`Go to` items are drawn for a single selection only, and on the *first*
+track of the fixture library — which has no album (`01 Tone A`,
+`02 Tone B`) — only "Go to Artist" appears. That is the 8 above; an
+ordinary track makes it 9.
+
+Filed as its own issue rather than fixed in #67's diff: it is a
+property of the shared sheet (`components/menu-surface/`), not of the
+items.

CLAUDE.md

@@ -2336,6 +2336,31 @@ a list or a detail view:
   and dropped if a second click arrives, because the title is the
   widest thing in a row and double-clicking a row plays it. Rows do
   not need to know links exist.
+
+  **Below 600px a name is not a link, and the row's menu is where it
+  went** (#67). Every sentence above is a *desktop* compromise: the
+  double-click grace means nothing on touch, a few characters of text
+  is not a touch target, and since #63 a claimed `yj-tap` has its click
+  swallowed, so the link was unreachable as well as fiddly. The rule is
+  in the utility rather than at twenty call sites, and
+  `utils/go-to-menu.ts` is the other half — "Go to Artist" / "Go to
+  Album", drawn under exactly the condition the link is not, from
+  `explore-link`'s own exported routing so an untagged artist reaches
+  the library page by the same lookup.
+
+  Three things about it are load-bearing. **Suppressing a link without
+  a menu behind it is not a smaller affordance**, it is a destination
+  the phone cannot reach — so `keepOnPhone` is the documented exception
+  for the three surfaces with no row menu (`now-playing-view`,
+  `explore-album-details`' header credit, `top-results-row`), and
+  nothing else may pass it. **One row or none**: the items are the Play
+  item's rule one step on, since "go to the album" of five different
+  albums means nothing. And **there is no "Go to Genre"**, because
+  there is no genre link anywhere to lose — that would be new
+  navigation rather than a replacement, and belongs in its own issue.
+  `track-list` is the one list that gains rather than moves: its phone
+  column set stacks title over artist as plain text already, so those
+  names have never been links there.
 - **`<catalog-scope-notice>`** is how a detail page admits what it is
   showing: catalog data (silent), a library stand-in while a fetch is
   in flight, library-only because the entity has no MBID, or a failed/

e2e/specs/phone-entity-links.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+import {
+  test,
+  expect,
+  callBinding,
+  openTheQueue,
+  NO_QUEUE_SOURCE,
+} from '../support/fixtures.js';
+import type { Page } from '@playwright/test';
+
+/**
+ * #67 — a name is not a link on a phone, and the menu is where it went.
+ *
+ * The queue panel is the surface this is visible on: its rows draw a
+ * track title and an artist credit as `explore-link`s at every width,
+ * unlike `track-list`, whose phone column set stacks title over artist
+ * as plain text already.
+ *
+ * **The pair is what makes either assertion mean anything.** A link
+ * that is gone and a menu item that never arrived is not a smaller
+ * affordance — it is a destination the phone cannot reach, which is
+ * what plan 018's "no action is unreachable at any supported size"
+ * refuses. So each test asserts the phone and the desktop in the same
+ * breath: text *and* an item here, a link *and* no item there.
+ *
+ * The desktop half is also the regression guard for the change: menus
+ * above the breakpoint must be exactly what they were, because the name
+ * beside them is still a link and a menu that repeats the row is
+ * furniture.
+ */
+
+/** The reference device's real viewport, not a resized desktop. */
+const DEVICE = { width: 424, height: 439 };
+
+/** Wide enough that the queue is a column beside the content. */
+const DESKTOP = { width: 1280, height: 800 };
+
+const row = (app: Page, index: number) =>
+  app.locator(`queue-panel .track-item[data-index="${index}"]`);
+
+/** The queue panel's own context menu, as a list of item labels. */
+async function menuLabels(app: Page): Promise<string[]> {
+  return app.evaluate(() =>
+    [
+      ...document
+        .querySelector('queue-panel')!
+        .shadowRoot!.querySelectorAll('wa-dropdown-item'),
+    ].map((item) => item.textContent?.replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim() ?? ''),
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Queue three tracks that have an album, for the reason
+ * `queue-selection.spec.ts` states at length: `explore-link` routes a
+ * title to its *album's* page and renders plain text where it cannot
+ * route, so a track with no album answers this file's question with
+ * the wrong "no link".
+ */
+async function queueThree(app: Page): Promise<void> {
+  const paths = await app.evaluate(async () => {
+    const tracks = (await window.__yjEvents.call(
+      'library.Library.GetTracks',
+      [0],
+      10_000,
+    )) as { FilePath: string; Album: string; ArtistName: string }[];
+
+    return tracks
+      .filter((t) => t.Album !== '' && t.ArtistName !== '')
+      .slice(0, 3)
+      .map((t) => t.FilePath);
+  });
+
+  await callBinding(app, 'queue.Queue.SetQueue', [
+    paths,
+    0,
+    false,
+    NO_QUEUE_SOURCE,
+  ]);
+}
+
+/** Open the row's context menu and read the items back. */
+async function openRowMenu(app: Page, index: number): Promise<string[]> {
+  await row(app, index).click({ button: 'right' });
+  await expect
+    .poll(async () => (await menuLabels(app)).length)
+    .toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+  return menuLabels(app);
+}
+
+test.describe('an inline name and the menu that replaces it', () => {
+  test.afterEach(async ({ app }) => {
+    await app.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await callBinding(app, 'queue.Queue.Clear').catch(() => {
+      /* an empty queue is the state we were asking for */
+    });
+    await app.setViewportSize(DESKTOP);
+  });
+
+  test('a queue row is plain text on a phone and carries the destination', async ({
+    app,
+  }) => {
+    await app.setViewportSize(DEVICE);
+    await queueThree(app);
+    await openTheQueue(app);
+    await expect(row(app, 0)).toBeVisible();
+
+    // The name is text: nothing in the row is a link at all.
+    await expect(app.locator('queue-panel .track-item .explore-link')).toHaveCount(
+      0,
+    );
+
+    const labels = await openRowMenu(app, 0);
+
+    expect(labels).toContain('Go to Artist');
+    expect(labels).toContain('Go to Album');
+  });
+
+  test('the same row on a desktop is a link, and its menu is untouched', async ({
+    app,
+  }) => {
+    await app.setViewportSize(DESKTOP);
+    await queueThree(app);
+    await openTheQueue(app);
+    await expect(row(app, 0)).toBeVisible();
+
+    await expect(
+      row(app, 0).locator('.track-title .explore-link'),
+    ).toHaveCount(1);
+
+    const labels = await openRowMenu(app, 0);
+
+    expect(labels).not.toContain('Go to Artist');
+    expect(labels).not.toContain('Go to Album');
+  });
+});

frontend/src/components/cover-grid/cover-grid.ts

@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ import {
 import type { ContextMenuHost, MenuTarget } from '@utils/context-menu-controller.js';
 import { FavoritesController } from '@store/controllers/favorites-controller';
 import { creditLink, exploreLinkStyles } from '../../utils/explore-link';
+import { goToMenuItems } from '../../utils/go-to-menu';
+import type { GoToTarget } from '../../utils/go-to-menu';
 import { creditStore } from '@store/credit-store';
 import {
     createAlbumArtDragImage,
@@ -2084,6 +2086,30 @@ export class CoverGrid
         );
     }
 
+    /**
+     * The artist an album card's menu can navigate to — the card's own
+     * credit line, which stops being a link below the phone breakpoint
+     * (#67).
+     *
+     * A *track* target gets nothing: the dropdown's rows carry no
+     * links of their own, and the album they sit under is the card
+     * that opened them.
+     */
+    private get goToTarget(): GoToTarget | undefined {
+        if (this.contextMenuTarget.kind !== 'album') return undefined;
+
+        const album = this.albums.find(
+            (a) => a.ID === this.contextMenuAlbumId,
+        );
+
+        if (!album) return undefined;
+
+        return {
+            artistName: album.ArtistName,
+            artistMBID: album.ArtistMBID,
+        };
+    }
+
     private renderContextMenu() {
         const { ctxMenu } = this;
 
@@ -2199,6 +2225,11 @@ export class CoverGrid
                                         </wa-dropdown-item>
                                     `
                                   : nothing}
+                              ${goToMenuItems(this.goToTarget, {
+                                  onSelect: () => ctxMenu.close(),
+                                  onHover: () =>
+                                      ctxMenu.closePlaylistSubmenu(),
+                              })}
                           </div>
                       `
                 : nothing}

frontend/src/components/explore-album-details/explore-album-details.ts

@@ -3191,10 +3191,14 @@ export class ExploreAlbumDetails extends LitElement implements ContextMenuHost {
         return html`
             ${artist
                 ? html`<div class="album-artist">
+                      <!-- keepOnPhone: the page header is not a row and
+                           has no menu of its own, so this credit is the
+                           only route from an album to its artist (#67). -->
                       ${creditLink(
                           creditStore.credits(this.releaseGroupMBID),
                           artist,
                           artistMbid,
+                          { keepOnPhone: true },
                       )}
                   </div>`
                 : nothing}

frontend/src/components/explore-artist-details/explore-artist-details.ts

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ import { libraryStore } from '../../store/library-store';
 import { downloadStore } from '../../store/download-store';
 import '@awesome.me/webawesome/dist/components/button/button.js';
 import { trackLink, exploreLinkStyles } from '../../utils/explore-link';
+import { goToMenuItems } from '../../utils/go-to-menu';
 import { describeError } from '../../utils/describe-error';
 import {
     GetAlbumsByArtist,
@@ -2705,6 +2706,16 @@ export class ExploreArtistDetails extends LitElement implements ContextMenuHost
                 <wa-icon slot="icon" name="globe"></wa-icon>
                 View on MusicBrainz
             </wa-dropdown-item>
+            <!-- The track title links to its album, and below the phone
+                 breakpoint it is plain text (#67). The artist is this
+                 page, so there is nothing to go to. -->
+            ${goToMenuItems(
+                { albumName: track.releaseName, albumMBID: track.releaseGroupMbid ?? '' },
+                {
+                    onSelect: () => this.ctxMenu.close(),
+                    onHover: () => this.ctxMenu.closePlaylistSubmenu(),
+                },
+            )}
         `;
     }
 

frontend/src/components/explore-view/explore-view.ts

@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ import { queueStore } from '../../store/queue-store';
 import { notificationStore } from '../../store/notification-store';
 import '../notifications/inline-notice';
 import { creditLink, trackLink, exploreLinkStyles } from '../../utils/explore-link';
+import { goToMenuItems } from '../../utils/go-to-menu';
+import type { GoToTarget } from '../../utils/go-to-menu';
 import { creditStore } from '@store/credit-store';
 import { describeError } from '../../utils/describe-error';
 import '@awesome.me/webawesome/dist/components/icon/icon.js';
@@ -54,10 +56,28 @@ export const ExploreRegion = 'explore';
  * is present only when owned — that's what gates the playback items,
  * while `mbid` (always present) is what "View on MusicBrainz" uses, so
  * a catalog-only card still gets a menu with somewhere useful to go.
+ *
+ * `goTo` is the names the card draws -- an artist credit, and for a
+ * recording row the release its title links to. Below the phone
+ * breakpoint those are plain text, so the menu is where they went
+ * (#67); an album card carries no album of its own, because tapping
+ * the card is already that.
  */
 type ExploreMenuTarget =
-    | { kind: 'album'; mbid: string; localId?: number; title: string }
-    | { kind: 'recording'; mbid: string; localId?: number; title: string };
+    | {
+          kind: 'album';
+          mbid: string;
+          localId?: number;
+          title: string;
+          goTo?: GoToTarget;
+      }
+    | {
+          kind: 'recording';
+          mbid: string;
+          localId?: number;
+          title: string;
+          goTo?: GoToTarget;
+      };
 type ThumbnailRequest = explore.ThumbnailRequest;
 type MBSearchResult = explore.MBSearchResult;
 type LyricsResult = explore.LyricsResult;
@@ -1386,6 +1406,9 @@ export class ExploreView extends ViewLifecycleMixin(LitElement) implements Conte
                                   <wa-icon slot="icon" name="globe"></wa-icon>
                                   View on MusicBrainz
                               </wa-dropdown-item>
+                              ${goToMenuItems(target.goTo, {
+                                  onSelect: () => this.ctxMenu.close(),
+                              })}
                           </div>
                       `
                     : nothing}
@@ -2188,6 +2211,10 @@ export class ExploreView extends ViewLifecycleMixin(LitElement) implements Conte
                                         mbid: rg.mbid,
                                         localId: rg.localId,
                                         title: rg.title,
+                                        goTo: {
+                                            artistName: rg.artistCredit,
+                                            artistMBID: rg.artistMbid ?? '',
+                                        },
                                     })}
                                 role="button"
                                 tabindex="0"
@@ -2200,6 +2227,10 @@ export class ExploreView extends ViewLifecycleMixin(LitElement) implements Conte
                                             mbid: rg.mbid,
                                             localId: rg.localId,
                                             title: rg.title,
+                                            goTo: {
+                                                artistName: rg.artistCredit,
+                                                artistMBID: rg.artistMbid ?? '',
+                                            },
                                         },
                                     )}
                             >
@@ -2278,6 +2309,12 @@ export class ExploreView extends ViewLifecycleMixin(LitElement) implements Conte
                                         mbid: r.mbid,
                                         localId: r.localId,
                                         title: r.title,
+                                        goTo: {
+                                            artistName: r.artistCredit,
+                                            artistMBID: r.artistMbid ?? '',
+                                            albumName: r.releaseName ?? '',
+                                            albumMBID: r.releaseGroupMbid ?? '',
+                                        },
                                     })}
                                 @keydown=${(e: KeyboardEvent) =>
                                     this.onCardKeydown(
@@ -2288,6 +2325,12 @@ export class ExploreView extends ViewLifecycleMixin(LitElement) implements Conte
                                             mbid: r.mbid,
                                             localId: r.localId,
                                             title: r.title,
+                                            goTo: {
+                                                artistName: r.artistCredit,
+                                                artistMBID: r.artistMbid ?? '',
+                                                albumName: r.releaseName ?? '',
+                                                albumMBID: r.releaseGroupMbid ?? '',
+                                            },
                                         },
                                     )}
                             >

frontend/src/components/now-playing-view/now-playing-view.ts

@@ -420,11 +420,20 @@ export class NowPlayingView extends LitElement {
                         <h2 class="title" data-testid="npv-title">
                             ${track.title || track.fileName}
                         </h2>
+                        <!-- keepOnPhone: this screen is the phone's,
+                             and it has no context menu to carry the
+                             destination the way a row does (#67).
+                             Suppressing these takes the artist and the
+                             album away rather than moving them, and
+                             they are two lines of their own here
+                             rather than a few characters inside a
+                             row. -->
                         <p class="artist">
                             ${creditLink(
                                 creditStore.credits(track.recordingMbid),
                                 track.artist,
                                 track.artistMbid,
+                                { keepOnPhone: true },
                             )}
                         </p>
                         ${track.album
@@ -434,6 +443,7 @@ export class NowPlayingView extends LitElement {
                                       track.releaseGroupMbid,
                                       undefined,
                                       track.artist,
+                                      { keepOnPhone: true },
                                   )}
                               </p>`
                             : nothing}

frontend/src/components/playlist-details/playlist-details.ts

@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ import {
     trackLink,
     exploreLinkStyles,
 } from '@utils/explore-link';
+import { goToMenuItems } from '@utils/go-to-menu';
+import type { GoToTarget } from '@utils/go-to-menu';
 import { designTokens } from '../../styles/tokens.css';
 import { srOnly } from '../../styles/sr-only.css';
 import { backButton } from '../../styles/back-button.css';
@@ -589,6 +591,28 @@ export class PlaylistDetails
             .map((i) => this.tracks[i]!.FilePath);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * The row "Go to Artist" / "Go to Album" navigate from — one row
+     * or none, and only below the phone breakpoint, where the row's
+     * own names stopped being links (#67).
+     */
+    private get goToTarget(): GoToTarget | undefined {
+        const indices = this.selection.getSelectedIndices();
+
+        if (indices.length !== 1) return undefined;
+
+        const track = this.tracks[indices[0]!];
+
+        if (!track) return undefined;
+
+        return {
+            artistName: track.Artist,
+            artistMBID: track.ArtistMBID,
+            albumName: track.Album,
+            albumMBID: track.ReleaseGroupMBID,
+        };
+    }
+
     // =================================================================
     // Context menu actions
     // =================================================================
@@ -1900,6 +1924,14 @@ export class PlaylistDetails
                                       Track
                                       Details
                                   </wa-dropdown-item>
+                                  ${goToMenuItems(this.goToTarget, {
+                                      onSelect: () => {
+                                          this.selection.clear();
+                                          this.ctxMenu.close();
+                                      },
+                                      onHover: () =>
+                                          this.ctxMenu.closePlaylistSubmenu(),
+                                  })}
                               </div>
                           `
                     : nothing}

frontend/src/components/queue-panel/queue-panel.ts

@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ import {
     trackLink,
     exploreLinkStyles,
 } from '@utils/explore-link';
+import { goToMenuItems } from '@utils/go-to-menu';
+import type { GoToTarget } from '@utils/go-to-menu';
 import {
     ICON_NEW,
     ICON_PLAY,
@@ -1624,6 +1626,29 @@ export class QueuePanel
             .map((i) => tracks[i]!.filePath);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * The row "Go to Artist" / "Go to Album" navigate from, which is
+     * one row or none — the rule the Play item already follows.  Both
+     * items are drawn only below the phone breakpoint, where the row's
+     * own names stopped being links (#67).
+     */
+    private get goToTarget(): GoToTarget | undefined {
+        const indices = this.selection.getSelectedIndices();
+
+        if (indices.length !== 1) return undefined;
+
+        const track = this.queue.tracks[indices[0]!];
+
+        if (!track) return undefined;
+
+        return {
+            artistName: track.artist,
+            artistMBID: track.artistMbid,
+            albumName: track.album,
+            albumMBID: track.releaseGroupMbid,
+        };
+    }
+
     // =================================================================
     // Drop target (tracks dropped into queue)
     // =================================================================
@@ -2341,6 +2366,14 @@ export class QueuePanel
                                   Track
                                   Details
                               </wa-dropdown-item>
+                              ${goToMenuItems(this.goToTarget, {
+                                  onSelect: () => {
+                                      this.selection.clear();
+                                      this.ctxMenu.close();
+                                  },
+                                  onHover: () =>
+                                      this.ctxMenu.closePlaylistSubmenu(),
+                              })}
                           </div>
                       `
                     : nothing}

frontend/src/components/smart-playlist-details/smart-playlist-details.ts

@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ import {
     trackLink,
     exploreLinkStyles,
 } from '@utils/explore-link';
+import { goToMenuItems } from '@utils/go-to-menu';
+import type { GoToTarget } from '@utils/go-to-menu';
 import '@components/smart-playlist-editor/smart-playlist-editor.js';
 import { designTokens } from '../../styles/tokens.css';
 import { backButton } from '../../styles/back-button.css';
@@ -928,6 +930,28 @@ export class SmartPlaylistDetails
             .map((i) => this.tracks[i]!.FilePath);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * The row "Go to Artist" / "Go to Album" navigate from — one row
+     * or none, and only below the phone breakpoint, where the row's
+     * own names stopped being links (#67).
+     */
+    private get goToTarget(): GoToTarget | undefined {
+        const indices = this.selection.getSelectedIndices();
+
+        if (indices.length !== 1) return undefined;
+
+        const track = this.tracks[indices[0]!];
+
+        if (!track) return undefined;
+
+        return {
+            artistName: track.Artist,
+            artistMBID: track.ArtistMBID,
+            albumName: track.Album,
+            albumMBID: track.ReleaseGroupMBID,
+        };
+    }
+
     // =================================================================
     // Context menu actions
     // =================================================================
@@ -1683,6 +1707,14 @@ export class SmartPlaylistDetails
                                   ></wa-icon>
                                   Track Details
                               </wa-dropdown-item>
+                              ${goToMenuItems(this.goToTarget, {
+                                  onSelect: () => {
+                                      this.selection.clear();
+                                      this.ctxMenu.close();
+                                  },
+                                  onHover: () =>
+                                      this.ctxMenu.closePlaylistSubmenu(),
+                              })}
                           </div>
                       `
                     : nothing}

frontend/src/components/top-results-row/top-results-row.ts

@@ -371,8 +371,11 @@ export class TopResultsRow extends LitElement {
                         <span class="card-name">${r.name}</span>
                         ${artistPart || metaPart
                             ? html`<span class="card-subtitle"
-                                  >${artistPart
-                                      ? creditLink(creditStore.credits(r.mbid), artistPart, r.artistMbid ?? '')
+                                  ><!-- keepOnPhone: this card has no
+                                       context menu, so the credit is
+                                       the only route to the artist of
+                                       a top result (#67). -->${artistPart
+                                      ? creditLink(creditStore.credits(r.mbid), artistPart, r.artistMbid ?? '', { keepOnPhone: true })
                                       : nothing}${artistPart && metaPart
                                       ? ' · '
                                       : ''}${metaPart}</span

frontend/src/components/track-list/track-list.ts

@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ import {
     trackLink,
     exploreLinkStyles,
 } from '@utils/explore-link';
+import { goToMenuItems } from '@utils/go-to-menu';
+import type { GoToTarget } from '@utils/go-to-menu';
 import {
     setDragPayload,
     emitDragActive,
@@ -1954,6 +1956,33 @@ export class TrackList
         emitDragActive(false);
     };
 
+    /**
+     * The row the menu can navigate from, for "Go to Artist" / "Go to
+     * Album" — which exist only below the phone breakpoint, where the
+     * row's own names are no longer links (#67).
+     *
+     * One row only, on the rule the Play item already states: one row
+     * is a position, several are an explicit choice of *those* tracks,
+     * and "go to the album" of five different albums means nothing.
+     */
+    private get goToTarget(): GoToTarget | undefined {
+        if (this.selection.selectionCount !== 1) return undefined;
+
+        const [path] = this.selection.selectedItems;
+        const track = path
+            ? tracksByFilePath(this.tracks).get(path)
+            : undefined;
+
+        if (!track) return undefined;
+
+        return {
+            artistName: track.ArtistName,
+            artistMBID: track.ArtistMBID,
+            albumName: track.Album,
+            albumMBID: track.ReleaseGroupMBID,
+        };
+    }
+
     private onContextMenuAction(action: string) {
         const filePaths =
             this.selection.getSelectedKeysOrdered();
@@ -2563,6 +2592,13 @@ export class TrackList
                     ></wa-icon>
                     Track Details
                 </wa-dropdown-item>
+                ${goToMenuItems(this.goToTarget, {
+                    onSelect: () => {
+                        this.selection.clear();
+                        this.ctxMenu.close();
+                    },
+                    onHover: () => this.ctxMenu.closePlaylistSubmenu(),
+                })}
                 <wa-dropdown-item
                     @click=${() =>
                         this.onContextMenuAction(

frontend/src/utils/explore-link.ts

@@ -13,11 +13,35 @@
  * bug, not as a statement about metadata.  The only case that still
  * renders as text is one we genuinely cannot route (no name at all, or
  * nothing in the library by that name).
+ *
+ * ## Below the phone breakpoint a name is not a link (#67)
+ *
+ * A few characters of text inside a row is not a touch target, and the
+ * click handling below is explicitly a *desktop* compromise: the
+ * navigation is held for one double-click interval so double-clicking
+ * the row can still play it, which means nothing at all on touch.  On
+ * a phone the row's own gesture wins anyway — a claimed `yj-tap` has
+ * its click swallowed by `utils/touch-gestures.ts`, so the link was
+ * unreachable as well as fiddly.
+ *
+ * So the rule lives here rather than at twenty call sites, which is
+ * what the Findings on #67 ask for: a name renders as plain text below
+ * `PHONE_QUERY`, and the row's context menu carries "Go to Artist" /
+ * "Go to Album" in its place (`goToMenuItems`).
+ *
+ * The exception is `keepOnPhone`, and it is not a preference.  Three
+ * surfaces render a name with **no menu to carry the destination** —
+ * `now-playing-view`, `explore-album-details`' header credit and
+ * `top-results-row` — so suppressing the link there takes the action
+ * away entirely rather than moving it, which is what plan 018's "no
+ * action is unreachable at any supported size" refuses.  Each of those
+ * call sites says so.
  */
 
 import { html, css } from 'lit';
 import type { TemplateResult } from 'lit';
 import { libraryStore } from '../store/library-store';
+import { PHONE_QUERY } from './breakpoints';
 
 /** Shared CSS for explore link styling. Import into component styles. */
 export const exploreLinkStyles = css`
@@ -32,6 +56,57 @@ export const exploreLinkStyles = css`
     }
 `;
 
+/**
+ * Options every link function takes, for the one case that is not the
+ * default.
+ */
+export interface LinkOptions {
+    /**
+     * Keep the name navigable at phone width.
+     *
+     * For a surface with no context menu to carry the destination —
+     * see the header of this file.  A row must not pass it: the row's
+     * tap already means "play", and the menu is where the destination
+     * went.
+     */
+    keepOnPhone?: boolean;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The live phone breakpoint, made once and read per link.
+ *
+ * A `MediaQueryList` is live, so one object answers for the life of
+ * the page and a resize needs nothing from here.  The identity check
+ * is the test seam: this tier's viewport is fixed by the runner, so a
+ * spec answers the query by replacing `window.matchMedia` (the same
+ * stub `now-playing-phone.test.ts` installs), and swapping the
+ * function is what tells us to ask again.
+ */
+let phoneQuery: MediaQueryList | undefined;
+let phoneQuerySource: typeof window.matchMedia | undefined;
+
+/**
+ * Whether an inline name still navigates.
+ *
+ * Exported because the menus that carry the destination in its place
+ * are drawn under exactly the same condition -- one answer, not two.
+ */
+export function inlineLinksSuppressed(): boolean {
+    if (!window.matchMedia) return false;
+
+    if (phoneQuerySource !== window.matchMedia) {
+        phoneQuerySource = window.matchMedia;
+        phoneQuery = window.matchMedia(PHONE_QUERY);
+    }
+
+    return phoneQuery?.matches ?? false;
+}
+
+/** Whether this call site should render plain text rather than a link. */
+function plainText(options?: LinkOptions): boolean {
+    return !options?.keepOnPhone && inlineLinksSuppressed();
+}
+
 /** Fire a navigate event from the clicked element. */
 function navigate(target: EventTarget, detail: Record<string, unknown>): void {
     target.dispatchEvent(
@@ -153,39 +228,19 @@ function singleClick(
  * @param mbid - The MusicBrainz artist ID.  Empty string = local only.
  * @param content - Optional custom content to render inside the link
  *                  (e.g. highlighted search result).  Defaults to artistName.
+ * @param options - See `LinkOptions`.
  */
 export function artistLink(
     artistName: string,
     mbid: string,
     content?: TemplateResult | string,
+    options?: LinkOptions,
 ): TemplateResult | string {
     if (!artistName) return artistName;
+    if (plainText(options)) return content ?? artistName;
 
     const onClick = singleClick((target) => {
-        void (async () => {
-            if (mbid) {
-                navigate(target, {
-                    view: 'explore-artist-details',
-                    artistMBID: mbid,
-                    artistName,
-                });
-
-                return;
-            }
-
-            const local = await findLocalArtist(artistName);
-            if (!local) return;
-
-            // The caller's row had no MBID, but the library row for the
-            // same artist may — the grid routes by exactly this field,
-            // so reading it here is what keeps the two paths agreeing.
-            navigate(target, {
-                view: 'explore-artist-details',
-                artistMBID: local.MBID || '',
-                artistName,
-                localArtistId: local.ID,
-            });
-        })();
+        void openArtistPage(target, artistName, mbid);
     });
 
     return html`<a
@@ -203,19 +258,22 @@ export function artistLink(
  * @param mbid - The MusicBrainz release group ID.  Empty = local only.
  * @param content - Optional custom content to render inside the link.
  * @param artistName - Disambiguates same-named albums in the library.
+ * @param options - See `LinkOptions`.
  */
 export function albumLink(
     albumName: string,
     mbid: string,
     content?: TemplateResult | string,
     artistName?: string,
+    options?: LinkOptions,
 ): TemplateResult | string {
     if (!albumName) return albumName;
+    if (plainText(options)) return content ?? albumName;
 
     return html`<a
         class="explore-link"
         @click=${singleClick((target) => {
-            void openAlbum(target, albumName, mbid, artistName);
+            void openAlbumPage(target, albumName, mbid, artistName);
         })}
         title=${mbid ? 'View album on Explore' : 'View album in your library'}
     >${content ?? albumName}</a>`;
@@ -232,6 +290,7 @@ export function albumLink(
  * @param recordingMBID - The track's MusicBrainz recording ID.
  * @param content - Optional custom content (e.g. highlighted text).
  * @param artistName - Disambiguates same-named albums in the library.
+ * @param options - See `LinkOptions`.
  */
 export function trackLink(
     trackName: string,
@@ -240,14 +299,16 @@ export function trackLink(
     recordingMBID: string,
     content?: TemplateResult | string,
     artistName?: string,
+    options?: LinkOptions,
 ): TemplateResult | string {
     if (!trackName) return trackName;
     if (!albumName) return content ?? trackName;
+    if (plainText(options)) return content ?? trackName;
 
     return html`<a
         class="explore-link"
         @click=${singleClick((target) => {
-            void openAlbum(
+            void openAlbumPage(
                 target,
                 albumName,
                 releaseGroupMBID,
@@ -262,11 +323,48 @@ export function trackLink(
     >${content ?? trackName}</a>`;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Route to an artist page, preferring the catalog and falling back to
+ * the library copy.
+ *
+ * Exported because a menu item goes to the same place a name does, and
+ * two routings of "go to this artist" is how the two come to disagree
+ * about an untagged one.
+ */
+export async function openArtistPage(
+    target: EventTarget,
+    artistName: string,
+    mbid: string,
+): Promise<void> {
+    if (mbid) {
+        navigate(target, {
+            view: 'explore-artist-details',
+            artistMBID: mbid,
+            artistName,
+        });
+
+        return;
+    }
+
+    const local = await findLocalArtist(artistName);
+    if (!local) return;
+
+    // The caller's row had no MBID, but the library row for the
+    // same artist may — the grid routes by exactly this field,
+    // so reading it here is what keeps the two paths agreeing.
+    navigate(target, {
+        view: 'explore-artist-details',
+        artistMBID: local.MBID || '',
+        artistName,
+        localArtistId: local.ID,
+    });
+}
+
 /**
  * Route to an album page, preferring the catalog and falling back to
  * the library copy.  `highlight*` marks one track on arrival.
  */
-async function openAlbum(
+export async function openAlbumPage(
     target: EventTarget,
     albumName: string,
     releaseGroupMBID: string,
@@ -337,23 +435,31 @@ export interface CreditPart {
  * @param parts - The credit's parts in position order, if known.
  * @param fallbackName - The credit as a single string.
  * @param fallbackMbid - The primary artist's MBID.
+ * @param options - See `LinkOptions`.
  */
 export function creditLink(
     parts: readonly CreditPart[] | undefined,
     fallbackName: string,
     fallbackMbid: string,
+    options?: LinkOptions,
 ): TemplateResult | string {
     // One part is one link, so it is the fallback rather than a special
     // case — and a zero-part credit reaching here would otherwise
     // render as nothing at all, which is worse than the single-artist
     // answer it replaced.
     if (!parts || parts.length < 2) {
-        return artistLink(fallbackName, fallbackMbid);
+        return artistLink(fallbackName, fallbackMbid, undefined, options);
     }
 
+    // A decomposed credit is rendered from the same parts either way,
+    // so the join phrases survive the suppression and the text reads
+    // as it did — which is `creditText`'s job, and it is the string
+    // the `title=` beside these already uses.
+    if (plainText(options)) return creditText(parts, fallbackName);
+
     return html`${parts.map(
         (part) =>
-            html`${artistLink(part.creditedName, part.artistMbid)}${part.joinPhrase}`,
+            html`${artistLink(part.creditedName, part.artistMbid, undefined, options)}${part.joinPhrase}`,
     )}`;
 }
 

frontend/src/utils/go-to-menu.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+/**
+ * "Go to Artist" / "Go to Album", for the menus that carry a name the
+ * phone stopped drawing as a link (#67).
+ *
+ * `utils/explore-link.ts` renders a plain string below the phone
+ * breakpoint, because a few characters inside a row is not a touch
+ * target and the row's own tap already means "play".  That takes a
+ * destination away, so the row's context menu gives it back — which is
+ * the whole of this issue: the navigation moves, it does not go.
+ *
+ * Three things about it are load-bearing.
+ *
+ * **It is drawn under exactly the condition the link is not.**
+ * `inlineLinksSuppressed()` answers both, so a desktop menu is
+ * untouched (the name beside it is still a link, and a menu that
+ * repeats what the row already offers is furniture) and a phone menu
+ * cannot be missing what the row lost.
+ *
+ * **It goes where the name went.** `openArtistPage` / `openAlbumPage`
+ * are `explore-link`'s own routing, exported rather than reimplemented,
+ * so an untagged artist reaches the library page here for the same
+ * reason and by the same lookup it does from a link.
+ *
+ * **The host says when it is over**, through `onSelect` — every menu in
+ * this app closes itself and most clear their selection, and both are
+ * the host's bookkeeping rather than something a shared item may do on
+ * its behalf.  `onHover` is for the four hosts with a playlist submenu,
+ * which closes on any other item being pointed at.
+ */
+
+import { html, nothing } from 'lit';
+import type { TemplateResult } from 'lit';
+
+import { inlineLinksSuppressed, openArtistPage, openAlbumPage } from './explore-link';
+
+/**
+ * The entities one row or card can send you to.
+ *
+ * Everything is optional because the hosts differ: a track row knows
+ * both, an album card knows only its artist, and an artist page's own
+ * tracklist knows only the album.
+ */
+export interface GoToTarget {
+    artistName?: string;
+    artistMBID?: string;
+    albumName?: string;
+    albumMBID?: string;
+}
+
+export interface GoToHandlers {
+    /** Called before navigating: close the menu, clear the selection. */
+    onSelect?: () => void;
+    /** Called on hover: close a playlist submenu, where the host has one. */
+    onHover?: () => void;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The menu items for a target, or nothing at all where the name beside
+ * them is still a link.
+ */
+export function goToMenuItems(
+    target: GoToTarget | undefined,
+    handlers: GoToHandlers = {},
+): TemplateResult | typeof nothing {
+    if (!target || !inlineLinksSuppressed()) return nothing;
+
+    const artist = target.artistName?.trim();
+    const album = target.albumName?.trim();
+
+    if (!artist && !album) return nothing;
+
+    return html`
+        ${artist
+            ? html`<wa-dropdown-item
+                  data-testid="go-to-artist"
+                  @click=${(e: Event) => {
+                      handlers.onSelect?.();
+                      void openArtistPage(
+                          e.currentTarget as EventTarget,
+                          artist,
+                          target.artistMBID ?? '',
+                      );
+                  }}
+                  @mouseenter=${() => handlers.onHover?.()}
+              >
+                  <wa-icon slot="icon" name="user-group"></wa-icon>
+                  Go to Artist
+              </wa-dropdown-item>`
+            : nothing}
+        ${album
+            ? html`<wa-dropdown-item
+                  data-testid="go-to-album"
+                  @click=${(e: Event) => {
+                      handlers.onSelect?.();
+                      void openAlbumPage(
+                          e.currentTarget as EventTarget,
+                          album,
+                          target.albumMBID ?? '',
+                          artist,
+                      );
+                  }}
+                  @mouseenter=${() => handlers.onHover?.()}
+              >
+                  <wa-icon slot="icon" name="compact-disc"></wa-icon>
+                  Go to Album
+              </wa-dropdown-item>`
+            : nothing}
+    `;
+}

frontend/test/components/phone-entity-links.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,275 @@
+/**
+ * A name is not a link on a phone, and the menu is where it went (#67).
+ *
+ * `utils/explore-link.ts` makes every track, album and artist name
+ * navigable, with click handling that is explicitly a desktop
+ * compromise — the navigation is held for one double-click interval so
+ * double-clicking the row can still play it. On touch that is a delay
+ * on an ambiguous target, and since #63 the row's own tap claims the
+ * click anyway, so the link was unreachable as well as fiddly.
+ *
+ * So below the phone breakpoint a name renders as plain text and the
+ * row's context menu carries "Go to Artist" / "Go to Album" instead.
+ * The two halves are asserted together on purpose: a suppressed link
+ * with no menu item behind it is not a smaller affordance, it is a
+ * destination that cannot be reached, which is what plan 018 promises
+ * against.
+ *
+ * The breakpoint is stubbed rather than emulated for the reason
+ * `now-playing-phone.test.ts` states: this tier's viewport is fixed at
+ * 1280x800 by the runner, and `matchMedia` is the seam.
+ */
+import { describe, expect, it, beforeEach, afterEach } from 'vitest';
+import { html, render } from 'lit';
+import type { LitElement } from 'lit';
+
+import '@components/playlist-details/playlist-details';
+import {
+  albumLink,
+  artistLink,
+  creditLink,
+  trackLink,
+} from '@utils/explore-link';
+import { goToMenuItems } from '@utils/go-to-menu';
+import { stub, flush, resetHarness } from '@test/support/harness';
+import { fixture, shadowAll } from '@test/support/render';
+
+/** Answer the phone breakpoint, and hand back the undo. */
+function atPhone(phone: boolean): () => void {
+  const real = window.matchMedia.bind(window);
+
+  window.matchMedia = ((q: string) =>
+    q.includes('max-width: 599px')
+      ? {
+          matches: phone,
+          media: q,
+          addEventListener() {},
+          removeEventListener() {},
+        }
+      : real(q)) as typeof window.matchMedia;
+
+  return () => {
+    window.matchMedia = real as typeof window.matchMedia;
+  };
+}
+
+/** Render a template into a detached container and hand it back. */
+function draw(template: unknown): HTMLElement {
+  const host = document.createElement('div');
+
+  document.body.append(host);
+  render(html`${template}`, host);
+
+  return host;
+}
+
+describe('an inline name below the phone breakpoint', () => {
+  let restore: () => void = () => {};
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    restore();
+    document.querySelectorAll('body > div').forEach((el) => el.remove());
+  });
+
+  it('is a link on a desktop', () => {
+    restore = atPhone(false);
+
+    const host = draw(artistLink('Cocteau Twins', 'artist-mbid'));
+
+    expect(host.querySelector('a.explore-link')).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(host.textContent?.trim()).toBe('Cocteau Twins');
+  });
+
+  it('is plain text on a phone, for all four shapes', () => {
+    restore = atPhone(true);
+
+    const host = draw(html`
+      ${artistLink('Cocteau Twins', 'artist-mbid')}
+      ${albumLink('Heaven or Las Vegas', 'rg-mbid')}
+      ${trackLink('Iceblink Luck', 'Heaven or Las Vegas', 'rg-mbid', 'rec-mbid')}
+      ${creditLink(
+        [
+          {
+            creditedName: 'Skrillex',
+            artistMbid: 'a1',
+            joinPhrase: ' feat. ',
+          },
+          { creditedName: 'Swae Lee', artistMbid: 'a2', joinPhrase: '' },
+        ],
+        'Skrillex & Swae Lee',
+        'a1',
+      )}
+    `);
+
+    expect(host.querySelectorAll('a.explore-link')).toHaveLength(0);
+
+    // The words survive, join phrases included — a decomposed credit is
+    // still assembled from its parts, so the text does not change with
+    // the affordance.
+    expect(host.textContent).toContain('Cocteau Twins');
+    expect(host.textContent).toContain('Heaven or Las Vegas');
+    expect(host.textContent).toContain('Iceblink Luck');
+    expect(host.textContent).toContain('Skrillex feat. Swae Lee');
+  });
+
+  it('stays a link where the caller has no menu to carry it', () => {
+    restore = atPhone(true);
+
+    const host = draw(
+      albumLink('Heaven or Las Vegas', 'rg-mbid', undefined, 'Cocteau Twins', {
+        keepOnPhone: true,
+      }),
+    );
+
+    expect(host.querySelector('a.explore-link')).not.toBeNull();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('the "Go to" menu items', () => {
+  let restore: () => void = () => {};
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    restore();
+    document.querySelectorAll('body > div').forEach((el) => el.remove());
+  });
+
+  it('are absent on a desktop, where the name beside them is a link', () => {
+    restore = atPhone(false);
+
+    const host = draw(
+      goToMenuItems({ artistName: 'Cocteau Twins', albumName: 'Treasure' }),
+    );
+
+    expect(host.querySelectorAll('wa-dropdown-item')).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
+  it('offer only what the target knows', () => {
+    restore = atPhone(true);
+
+    const both = draw(
+      goToMenuItems({ artistName: 'Cocteau Twins', albumName: 'Treasure' }),
+    );
+    const artistOnly = draw(goToMenuItems({ artistName: 'Cocteau Twins' }));
+    const neither = draw(goToMenuItems({}));
+
+    expect(both.querySelectorAll('wa-dropdown-item')).toHaveLength(2);
+    expect(artistOnly.querySelectorAll('wa-dropdown-item')).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(neither.querySelectorAll('wa-dropdown-item')).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+});
+
+// =====================================================================
+// The menu that carries the destination
+// =====================================================================
+
+function playlistTracks(n: number) {
+  return Array.from({ length: n }, (_, i) => ({
+    ID: i + 1,
+    FilePath: `/music/track-${i}.mp3`,
+    Title: `Track ${i}`,
+    Artist: 'Cocteau Twins',
+    ArtistMBID: 'artist-mbid',
+    Album: 'Heaven or Las Vegas',
+    ReleaseGroupMBID: 'rg-mbid',
+    Duration: 180000,
+    Phantom: false,
+  }));
+}
+
+describe('a playlist row’s context menu on a phone', () => {
+  let el: LitElement;
+  let restore: () => void = () => {};
+
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    resetHarness();
+    restore = atPhone(true);
+    stub('playlist.Service.GetPlaylistTracks', playlistTracks(8));
+    stub('playlist.Service.GetAllPlaylists', []);
+
+    el = await fixture<LitElement>('playlist-details', {
+      playlistId: 1,
+      playlistName: 'A playlist',
+    });
+    el.style.display = 'block';
+    el.style.height = '600px';
+    await flush();
+    await el.updateComplete;
+    await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 60));
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    restore();
+  });
+
+  /** Right-click a row and hand back the menu's items. */
+  async function openMenu(index: number): Promise<HTMLElement[]> {
+    const row = shadowAll(el, '.track-item').find(
+      (r) => r.getAttribute('data-index') === String(index),
+    );
+
+    row!.dispatchEvent(
+      new MouseEvent('contextmenu', { bubbles: true, composed: true }),
+    );
+    await el.updateComplete;
+
+    return shadowAll<HTMLElement>(el, 'wa-dropdown-item');
+  }
+
+  it('carries the artist and the album the row stopped linking to', async () => {
+    const labels = (await openMenu(3)).map((i) => i.textContent?.trim());
+
+    expect(labels).toContain('Go to Artist');
+    expect(labels).toContain('Go to Album');
+  });
+
+  it('navigates where the name would have', async () => {
+    const seen: CustomEvent[] = [];
+    const listen = (e: Event) => seen.push(e as CustomEvent);
+
+    document.addEventListener('navigate', listen);
+
+    try {
+      const items = await openMenu(3);
+
+      items
+        .find((i) => i.textContent?.trim() === 'Go to Artist')!
+        .click();
+      await flush();
+    } finally {
+      document.removeEventListener('navigate', listen);
+    }
+
+    expect(seen.map((e) => e.detail)).toEqual([
+      {
+        view: 'explore-artist-details',
+        artistMBID: 'artist-mbid',
+        artistName: 'Cocteau Twins',
+      },
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('is absent while several rows are selected', async () => {
+    // "Go to the album" of five different albums means nothing, which
+    // is the rule the Play item already follows: one row is a
+    // position, several are an explicit choice of those tracks.
+    const rows = shadowAll(el, '.track-item');
+    const click = (i: number, modifiers: MouseEventInit) =>
+      rows
+        .find((r) => r.getAttribute('data-index') === String(i))!
+        .dispatchEvent(
+          new MouseEvent('click', {
+            bubbles: true,
+            composed: true,
+            ...modifiers,
+          }),
+        );
+
+    click(1, {});
+    click(4, { ctrlKey: true });
+    await el.updateComplete;
+
+    const labels = (await openMenu(4)).map((i) => i.textContent?.trim());
+
+    expect(labels).not.toContain('Go to Artist');
+  });
+});