diff --git a/backend/database/sql/queries/audio_files.sql b/backend/database/sql/queries/audio_files.sql
index ded9537..2bb789c 100644
--- a/backend/database/sql/queries/audio_files.sql
+++ b/backend/database/sql/queries/audio_files.sql
@@ -318,3 +318,28 @@ JOIN audio_files af ON af.recording_id = r.id
 WHERE rgr.release_group_id IN (sqlc.slice('release_group_ids'))
   AND af.library_id = ?
 ORDER BY rgr.disc_number, rgr.track_number;
+
+-- Same shape again, keyed on recording MBID, for the catalog side.
+-- An Explore album page knows which of its tracks the user owns only
+-- as a set of recording MBIDs -- that is exactly how the backend
+-- decides `inLibrary` (markReleasesInLibrary -> CheckMBIDs) -- and
+-- MBTrack.LocalID is declared but never written by anything, so there
+-- is no id to ask by. Grouped by MBID because a recording can have
+-- more than one file (the duplicate fixtures are precisely that) and
+-- because the caller owns the order: the tracklist's, not the
+-- database's.
+
+-- name: GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs :many
+SELECT r.mbid AS recording_mbid, af.file_path
+FROM recordings r
+JOIN audio_files af ON af.recording_id = r.id
+WHERE r.mbid IN (sqlc.slice('mbids'))
+ORDER BY af.file_path;
+
+-- name: GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDsByLibrary :many
+SELECT r.mbid AS recording_mbid, af.file_path
+FROM recordings r
+JOIN audio_files af ON af.recording_id = r.id
+WHERE r.mbid IN (sqlc.slice('mbids'))
+  AND af.library_id = ?
+ORDER BY af.file_path;
diff --git a/backend/database/sql/sqlcgen/audio_files.sql.go b/backend/database/sql/sqlcgen/audio_files.sql.go
index 96c47b1..7062065 100644
--- a/backend/database/sql/sqlcgen/audio_files.sql.go
+++ b/backend/database/sql/sqlcgen/audio_files.sql.go
@@ -907,6 +907,115 @@ func (q *Queries) GetAudioFilesNeedingMetadata(ctx context.Context) ([]AudioFile
 	return items, nil
 }
 
+const getFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs = `-- name: GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs :many
+
+SELECT r.mbid AS recording_mbid, af.file_path
+FROM recordings r
+JOIN audio_files af ON af.recording_id = r.id
+WHERE r.mbid IN (/*SLICE:mbids*/?)
+ORDER BY af.file_path
+`
+
+type GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDsRow struct {
+	RecordingMbid sql.NullString
+	FilePath      string
+}
+
+// Same shape again, keyed on recording MBID, for the catalog side.
+// An Explore album page knows which of its tracks the user owns only
+// as a set of recording MBIDs -- that is exactly how the backend
+// decides `inLibrary` (markReleasesInLibrary -> CheckMBIDs) -- and
+// MBTrack.LocalID is declared but never written by anything, so there
+// is no id to ask by. Grouped by MBID because a recording can have
+// more than one file (the duplicate fixtures are precisely that) and
+// because the caller owns the order: the tracklist's, not the
+// database's.
+func (q *Queries) GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs(ctx context.Context, mbids []sql.NullString) ([]GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDsRow, error) {
+	query := getFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs
+	var queryParams []interface{}
+	if len(mbids) > 0 {
+		for _, v := range mbids {
+			queryParams = append(queryParams, v)
+		}
+		query = strings.Replace(query, "/*SLICE:mbids*/?", strings.Repeat(",?", len(mbids))[1:], 1)
+	} else {
+		query = strings.Replace(query, "/*SLICE:mbids*/?", "NULL", 1)
+	}
+	rows, err := q.db.QueryContext(ctx, query, queryParams...)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+	var items []GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDsRow
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var i GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDsRow
+		if err := rows.Scan(&i.RecordingMbid, &i.FilePath); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		items = append(items, i)
+	}
+	if err := rows.Close(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if err := rows.Err(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return items, nil
+}
+
+const getFilePathsByRecordingMBIDsByLibrary = `-- name: GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDsByLibrary :many
+SELECT r.mbid AS recording_mbid, af.file_path
+FROM recordings r
+JOIN audio_files af ON af.recording_id = r.id
+WHERE r.mbid IN (/*SLICE:mbids*/?)
+  AND af.library_id = ?
+ORDER BY af.file_path
+`
+
+type GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDsByLibraryParams struct {
+	Mbids     []sql.NullString
+	LibraryID int64
+}
+
+type GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDsByLibraryRow struct {
+	RecordingMbid sql.NullString
+	FilePath      string
+}
+
+func (q *Queries) GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDsByLibrary(ctx context.Context, arg GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDsByLibraryParams) ([]GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDsByLibraryRow, error) {
+	query := getFilePathsByRecordingMBIDsByLibrary
+	var queryParams []interface{}
+	if len(arg.Mbids) > 0 {
+		for _, v := range arg.Mbids {
+			queryParams = append(queryParams, v)
+		}
+		query = strings.Replace(query, "/*SLICE:mbids*/?", strings.Repeat(",?", len(arg.Mbids))[1:], 1)
+	} else {
+		query = strings.Replace(query, "/*SLICE:mbids*/?", "NULL", 1)
+	}
+	queryParams = append(queryParams, arg.LibraryID)
+	rows, err := q.db.QueryContext(ctx, query, queryParams...)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+	var items []GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDsByLibraryRow
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var i GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDsByLibraryRow
+		if err := rows.Scan(&i.RecordingMbid, &i.FilePath); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		items = append(items, i)
+	}
+	if err := rows.Close(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if err := rows.Err(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return items, nil
+}
+
 const getFilePathsByReleaseGroups = `-- name: GetFilePathsByReleaseGroups :many
 
 SELECT rgr.release_group_id, af.file_path
diff --git a/backend/library/filepaths_test.go b/backend/library/filepaths_test.go
index 5b86a56..c239b6f 100644
--- a/backend/library/filepaths_test.go
+++ b/backend/library/filepaths_test.go
@@ -229,3 +229,104 @@ func TestGetFilePathsByGenres_Empty(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("got %v, want empty", got)
 	}
 }
+
+// seedRecordingMBIDs stamps recording MBIDs onto the tracks seeded by
+// seedAlbumsAndGenres, in the shape the catalog side actually meets: two
+// tracks tagged, one deliberately left untagged, and one MBID carried by
+// two files in different libraries — which is what a duplicate is.
+func seedRecordingMBIDs(t *testing.T, lib *Library) (tagged, shared string) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	ctx := lib.ctx
+	q := lib.db.Queries
+
+	tagged = "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111"
+	shared = "22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222"
+
+	byPath := map[string]string{
+		"/music/a1.mp3": tagged,
+		"/music/a2.mp3": shared,
+		"/other/b1.mp3": shared,
+	}
+
+	files, err := q.GetAllAudioFiles(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("get audio files: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	for _, f := range files {
+		mbid, ok := byPath[f.FilePath]
+		if !ok {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		if err := q.SetRecordingMBID(ctx, sqlcgen.SetRecordingMBIDParams{
+			Mbid: sql.NullString{String: mbid, Valid: true},
+			ID:   f.RecordingID,
+		}); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("set recording mbid: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return tagged, shared
+}
+
+// The catalog side of the same finding: an Explore album page knows what
+// the user owns only as recording MBIDs, so this is the lookup that
+// turns "you own 7 of these 12" into something playable.
+func TestGetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	lib, _ := setupTestLibrary(t)
+	_, libraryID := seedAlbumsAndGenres(t, lib)
+	tagged, shared := seedRecordingMBIDs(t, lib)
+
+	got, err := lib.GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs([]string{tagged, shared}, 0)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if len(got[tagged]) != 1 || got[tagged][0] != "/music/a1.mp3" {
+		t.Errorf("tagged recording = %v, want [/music/a1.mp3]", got[tagged])
+	}
+
+	// One recording, two files: grouping is what keeps that visible.
+	// A flattened result could not say which was which.
+	if len(got[shared]) != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("shared recording = %v, want two paths", got[shared])
+	}
+
+	// Scoping drops the copy in the other library, and nothing else.
+	scoped, err := lib.GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs([]string{tagged, shared}, libraryID)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs scoped: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if len(scoped[shared]) != 1 || scoped[shared][0] != "/music/a2.mp3" {
+		t.Errorf("scoped shared = %v, want [/music/a2.mp3]", scoped[shared])
+	}
+}
+
+// An empty MBID matches every untagged recording in the library, which
+// is the opposite of the question being asked — so an unknown track must
+// contribute nothing rather than everything.
+func TestGetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs_IgnoresEmpty(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	lib, _ := setupTestLibrary(t)
+	seedAlbumsAndGenres(t, lib)
+	seedRecordingMBIDs(t, lib)
+
+	got, err := lib.GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs([]string{"", ""}, 0)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if len(got) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("empty MBIDs matched %d recordings, want none", len(got))
+	}
+
+	if _, err := lib.GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs(nil, 0); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("nil MBIDs: %v", err)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/backend/library/query.go b/backend/library/query.go
index 1217ebe..75f6e2c 100644
--- a/backend/library/query.go
+++ b/backend/library/query.go
@@ -1204,3 +1204,117 @@ func (l *Library) GetFilePathsByGenres(
 
 	return paths, nil
 }
+
+// GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs returns the file paths of every track
+// whose recording MBID is in mbids, grouped by MBID.
+//
+// This is the catalog side of GetFilePathsByAlbums.  An Explore album
+// page knows what the user owns as a set of recording MBIDs and nothing
+// else: that is exactly how the backend decides a track's InLibrary
+// flag (markReleasesInLibrary → CheckMBIDs), and MBTrack.LocalID is a
+// declared field that nothing writes, so there is no id to ask by.
+//
+// Grouped rather than flattened for the same two reasons as its
+// siblings — the caller owns the order (the tracklist's, not the
+// database's), and one recording can have more than one file, which is
+// what this app's duplicate detection exists for.
+//
+// A library id of 0 means "every library".
+func (l *Library) GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs(
+	mbids []string, libraryID int64,
+) (map[string][]string, error) {
+	paths := make(map[string][]string, len(mbids))
+
+	if len(mbids) == 0 {
+		return paths, nil
+	}
+
+	// recordings.mbid is nullable, so sqlc asks for NullStrings.  An
+	// empty MBID would match every untagged recording in the library,
+	// which is the opposite of the question, so those are dropped here
+	// rather than passed through as NULL.
+	keys := make([]sql.NullString, 0, len(mbids))
+
+	for _, mbid := range mbids {
+		if mbid == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		keys = append(keys, sql.NullString{String: mbid, Valid: true})
+	}
+
+	if len(keys) == 0 {
+		return paths, nil
+	}
+
+	rows, err := l.filePathRowsByMBID(keys, libraryID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	for _, row := range rows {
+		if !row.mbid.Valid {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		paths[row.mbid.String] = append(paths[row.mbid.String], row.path)
+	}
+
+	return paths, nil
+}
+
+// filePathRowsByMBID runs the scoped or unscoped query behind
+// GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs and flattens the two row types into one.
+func (l *Library) filePathRowsByMBID(
+	keys []sql.NullString, libraryID int64,
+) ([]mbidFilePath, error) {
+	if libraryID > 0 {
+		rows, err := l.db.ReadQueries.GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDsByLibrary(
+			l.ctx, sqlcgen.GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDsByLibraryParams{
+				Mbids:     keys,
+				LibraryID: libraryID,
+			},
+		)
+		if err != nil {
+			l.logger.Error(
+				"could not retrieve recording file paths for library",
+				"recordings", len(keys),
+				"libraryID", libraryID,
+				"error", err,
+			)
+
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("could not get recording file paths: %w", err)
+		}
+
+		out := make([]mbidFilePath, 0, len(rows))
+		for _, row := range rows {
+			out = append(out, mbidFilePath{mbid: row.RecordingMbid, path: row.FilePath})
+		}
+
+		return out, nil
+	}
+
+	rows, err := l.db.ReadQueries.GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs(l.ctx, keys)
+	if err != nil {
+		l.logger.Error(
+			"could not retrieve recording file paths",
+			"recordings", len(keys),
+			"error", err,
+		)
+
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("could not get recording file paths: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	out := make([]mbidFilePath, 0, len(rows))
+	for _, row := range rows {
+		out = append(out, mbidFilePath{mbid: row.RecordingMbid, path: row.FilePath})
+	}
+
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// mbidFilePath is one row of either GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs query.
+type mbidFilePath struct {
+	mbid sql.NullString
+	path string
+}
diff --git a/e2e/specs/album-actions.spec.ts b/e2e/specs/album-actions.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1cf4d23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/e2e/specs/album-actions.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+import { test, expect, callBinding } from '../support/fixtures.js';
+import type { Page } from '@playwright/test';
+
+/**
+ * Plan 007 phase 5: `H-13` — the album page can be played from.
+ *
+ * The page is `explore-album-details`; there is no library-side album
+ * detail page at all, so this catalog page is where a Play button has
+ * to live, and what it can honestly claim depends on how much of the
+ * album the user owns.
+ *
+ * What this tier adds over the component tests is that the paths
+ * resolve to something the queue accepts. The first version of this
+ * feature keyed the lookup on recording MBIDs — which is how the
+ * backend decides a track is `inLibrary` — and a library-only album has
+ * none, so Play was wired, labelled correctly, clicked cleanly and
+ * queued **nothing**. Every component test still passed.
+ */
+test.describe('playing an album from its page', () => {
+  test.beforeEach(async ({ app }) => {
+    await openFirstAlbum(app);
+  });
+
+  test.afterEach(async ({ app }) => {
+    // The suite shares one backend process in file order, and a queue
+    // left full is state the next spec did not ask for.
+    await callBinding(app, 'queue.Queue.Clear', []);
+    await app.getByTestId('nav-tracks').click();
+  });
+
+  test('Play queues what the user owns of it', async ({ app }) => {
+    const play = app
+      .locator('explore-album-details')
+      .locator('[data-testid="album-play"]');
+
+    // The fixture library is untagged, so this album is wholly local
+    // and the button carries no count.
+    await expect(play).toContainText('Play');
+
+    await play.click();
+
+    await expect.poll(() => queueLength(app)).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  });
+
+  test('Add to queue appends rather than replacing', async ({ app }) => {
+    const details = app.locator('explore-album-details');
+
+    await details.locator('[data-testid="album-play"]').click();
+    await expect.poll(() => queueLength(app)).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+    const before = await queueLength(app);
+
+    await details.locator('[data-testid="album-queue"]').click();
+
+    await expect.poll(() => queueLength(app)).toBe(before * 2);
+  });
+
+  test('the ticks against the tracks have a legend', async ({ app }) => {
+    // `H-13` calls them unexplained. They were never *unlabelled* — the
+    // indicator has carried a title and an aria-label reading
+    // "Track “X” is in your library" all along — but a sighted user
+    // scanning the page got a column of green circles and no key.
+    await expect(
+      app.locator('explore-album-details').locator('.tracklist-legend'),
+    ).toContainText('in your library');
+  });
+});
+
+/** Albums → click the second card, which navigates to the album page. */
+async function openFirstAlbum(app: Page): Promise<void> {
+  await app.getByTestId('nav-albums').click();
+  await expect(app.getByTestId('main-content')).toHaveAttribute(
+    'data-active-view',
+    'albums',
+  );
+
+  // The cards come from a virtualizer, so they are not there when the
+  // view is: a click dispatched into an empty grid hits nothing and
+  // silently leaves the app on Albums, which reads as a broken
+  // navigation rather than a race.
+  await expect.poll(() => cardCount(app)).toBeGreaterThan(1);
+
+  // A plain click on a card navigates here; Enter expands the dropdown
+  // instead. Dispatched rather than clicked because the card lives in a
+  // virtualizer inside a shadow root.
+  await app.evaluate(() => {
+    document
+      .querySelector('cover-grid')
+      ?.shadowRoot?.querySelectorAll('.album-card')[1]
+      ?.dispatchEvent(
+        new MouseEvent('click', { bubbles: true, composed: true }),
+      );
+  });
+
+  await expect(app.getByTestId('main-content')).toHaveAttribute(
+    'data-active-view',
+    'explore-album-details',
+  );
+  await expect(
+    app.locator('explore-album-details').locator('[data-testid="album-play"]'),
+  ).toBeVisible();
+}
+
+async function cardCount(app: Page): Promise<number> {
+  return app.evaluate(
+    () =>
+      document
+        .querySelector('cover-grid')
+        ?.shadowRoot?.querySelectorAll('.album-card').length ?? 0,
+  );
+}
+
+async function queueLength(app: Page): Promise<number> {
+  const state = (await callBinding(app, 'queue.Queue.GetState', [])) as {
+    tracks?: unknown[];
+  };
+
+  return state?.tracks?.length ?? 0;
+}
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 60fad2e..5ba4b56 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/explore-album-details/explore-album-details.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/components/explore-album-details/explore-album-details.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,11 @@ import {
     BrowseReleases,
     GetThumbnail,
 } from '@go/explore/Service';
-import { GetAlbumTracks } from '@go/library/Library';
+import {
+    GetAlbumTracks,
+    GetFilePathsByAlbums,
+    GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs,
+} from '@go/library/Library';
 import { library } from '@go/models';
 import type { download, explore } from '@go/models';
 type MBReleaseGroup = explore.MBReleaseGroup;
@@ -25,6 +29,17 @@ import type { CatalogScope } from '../catalog-scope-notice/catalog-scope-notice.
 import '@awesome.me/webawesome/dist/components/button/button.js';
 import '../download-picker/download-picker';
 import { downloadStore } from '../../store/download-store';
+import { queueStore } from '../../store/queue-store';
+import { notificationStore } from '../../store/notification-store';
+import '../notifications/inline-notice';
+
+/**
+ * The region the album header's own failures are rendered in.
+ *
+ * "Inline" says *not global*, not *where* — so the region is named
+ * once, here, rather than spelled at each call site.
+ */
+export const ExploreAlbumRegion = 'explore-album';
 
 /* ── Utility functions (duplicated per Knowledge Pattern #9 — no cross-component imports) ── */
 
@@ -269,6 +284,26 @@ export class ExploreAlbumDetails extends LitElement {
                 flex-shrink: 0;
             }
 
+            .album-actions {
+                display: flex;
+                flex-wrap: wrap;
+                align-items: center;
+                gap: 8px;
+                margin-top: 8px;
+            }
+
+            /*
+             * The sentence under a partial Play button. It repeats the
+             * count on the button on purpose: the button has to be
+             * short and the claim has to be unambiguous, and "Play 7 of
+             * 12" alone does not say whether the other five are missing
+             * or merely unselected.
+             */
+            .album-owned-note {
+                font-size: var(--yj-text-sm);
+                color: var(--yj-text-secondary, #aaa);
+            }
+
             .album-artist {
                 font-size: var(--yj-text-lg);
                 color: var(--yj-text-secondary, #b3b3b3);
@@ -301,6 +336,17 @@ export class ExploreAlbumDetails extends LitElement {
             }
 
             /* ── Section headers ── */
+            .tracklist-legend {
+                display: inline-flex;
+                align-items: center;
+                gap: 4px;
+                margin-left: 10px;
+                font-weight: 400;
+                text-transform: none;
+                letter-spacing: 0;
+                color: var(--yj-text-tertiary, #888);
+            }
+
             .section-header {
                 font-size: 11px;
                 font-weight: 600;
@@ -1399,6 +1445,13 @@ export class ExploreAlbumDetails extends LitElement {
      *     a track marked inLibrary       where releaseGroup may be null)
      *   - else                        → not owned
      *
+     * Four different claims of decreasing confidence, OR'd together and
+     * reported as one tick — the last of which fires when a *single*
+     * recording of a forty-track release matches.  `ownership()` is the
+     * honest version of the same question and is what the header's
+     * actions key off; this stays as it was, because the indicator's
+     * job is "is any of this yours" and that is what it answers.
+     *
      * No queued state for now — that's reserved for future
      * download-client integration.
      */
@@ -1427,6 +1480,56 @@ export class ExploreAlbumDetails extends LitElement {
         return 'not-in-library';
     }
 
+    /**
+     * How much of the shown release the user actually has.
+     *
+     * The tick beside the title is a yes/no answer to "is any of this
+     * mine", and four of its five branches can be true when one track
+     * of forty matches. That is fine for a badge and useless for a
+     * button: "Play" that plays one track of a forty-track release is
+     * worse than no Play button, so the header asks this instead.
+     *
+     * It is counted off the *tracklist being displayed*, which is the
+     * one thing on this page that is not an inference — each track's
+     * `inLibrary` is set by the backend from its recording MBID
+     * (`markReleasesInLibrary`), the same key the file paths are
+     * fetched by.
+     */
+    private ownership(): { owned: number; total: number } {
+        const tracks = this.currentVersion()?.tracks ?? [];
+
+        return {
+            owned: tracks.filter((t) => t.inLibrary).length,
+            total: tracks.length,
+        };
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Say what the green tick against a track means.
+     *
+     * `H-13` calls the ticks "unexplained". Half of that has aged: the
+     * indicator carries a `title` *and* an `aria-label` reading
+     * "Track \u201cX\u201d is in your library", so a screen reader and a hover
+     * both get a full sentence. What a sighted user scanning the page
+     * gets is a column of green circles and no key, which is what this
+     * is — rendered only when at least one track is actually ticked, so
+     * it never explains a symbol that is not on screen.
+     */
+    private renderTracklistLegend() {
+        const { owned } = this.ownership();
+
+        if (owned === 0) return nothing;
+
+        return html`<span class="tracklist-legend">
+            <library-status-indicator
+                status="in-library"
+                entity-type="track"
+                size="14"
+            ></library-status-indicator>
+            in your library
+        </span>`;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Check whether the selected release's tracklist contains any track
      * with discNumber > 1, indicating a multi-disc release.
@@ -1542,6 +1645,7 @@ export class ExploreAlbumDetails extends LitElement {
                         ></library-status-indicator>
                     </h1>
                     ${this.renderAlbumMeta()}
+                    ${this.renderPlayActions()}
                     ${this.renderDownloadAction()}
                 </div>
             </div>
@@ -1549,6 +1653,186 @@ export class ExploreAlbumDetails extends LitElement {
         `;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * The primary action, and the sentence that says what it will do.
+     *
+     * `H-13`: the album page had no Play, no Shuffle and no Add to
+     * queue. What it could not have is a Play button that means the
+     * same thing in every case — this is a *catalog* page, and the
+     * album on it may be entirely yours, partly yours, or not yours at
+     * all. So the button says which:
+     *
+     *   - all of it       → "Play", and the count is in the meta line
+     *   - some of it      → "Play 7 of 12", because playing seven
+     *                       tracks under a button that says "Play" is
+     *                       the page lying about what you own
+     *   - none of it      → no play button at all; the download and
+     *                       want actions below are the whole answer
+     *
+     * The count is the tracklist's own `inLibrary` flags, which the
+     * backend sets from each recording's MBID — the same key
+     * `GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs` resolves the files by, so the
+     * number on the button is the number of tracks that will play.
+     */
+    private renderPlayActions() {
+        const { owned, total } = this.ownership();
+
+        if (owned === 0 || total === 0) return nothing;
+
+        const partial = owned < total;
+        const playLabel = partial ? `Play ${owned} of ${total}` : 'Play';
+
+        return html`
+            <div class="album-actions">
+                <wa-button
+                    size="small"
+                    appearance="filled"
+                    data-testid="album-play"
+                    @click=${() => void this.playOwned(false)}
+                >
+                    <wa-icon slot="start" name="play"></wa-icon>
+                    ${playLabel}
+                </wa-button>
+                <wa-button
+                    size="small"
+                    appearance="outlined"
+                    data-testid="album-shuffle"
+                    @click=${() => void this.playOwned(true)}
+                >
+                    <wa-icon slot="start" name="shuffle"></wa-icon>
+                    Shuffle album
+                </wa-button>
+                <wa-button
+                    size="small"
+                    appearance="outlined"
+                    data-testid="album-queue"
+                    @click=${() => void this.queueOwned()}
+                >
+                    <wa-icon slot="start" name="list"></wa-icon>
+                    Add to queue
+                </wa-button>
+                ${partial
+                    ? html`<span class="album-owned-note">
+                          You have ${owned} of these ${total} tracks.
+                      </span>`
+                    : nothing}
+            </div>
+            <inline-notice
+                region=${ExploreAlbumRegion}
+                testid="album-action-message"
+            ></inline-notice>
+        `;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * File paths for the tracks of this release the user actually owns,
+     * in the tracklist's order.
+     *
+     * One call. The obvious alternative — ask for the album's tracks
+     * and read `FilePath` off them — is the shape `perf.m2` was about,
+     * and it is not even available here: this page's model is
+     * `MBTrack`, which carries a recording MBID and a `localId` that
+     * nothing in the backend ever writes.
+     */
+    private async ownedFilePaths(): Promise<string[]> {
+        const libraryID = libraryStore.getSelectedLibraryId() ?? 0;
+
+        // The local album id is the better key whenever there is one:
+        // it needs no MBIDs at all, and a library-only album has none —
+        // its tracks are synthesised from `GetAlbumTracks` with
+        // `mbid: RecordingMBID || ''`, so an untagged library resolves
+        // to an empty set and the Play button silently does nothing.
+        // That is exactly what the first version of this did.
+        if (this.localAlbumId > 0) {
+            const byAlbum = await GetFilePathsByAlbums(
+                [this.localAlbumId],
+                libraryID,
+            );
+
+            return byAlbum[this.localAlbumId] ?? [];
+        }
+
+        // Catalog-only: the page knows what is owned as recording MBIDs
+        // and nothing else — which is how the backend decided each
+        // track's `inLibrary` in the first place.
+        const tracks = this.currentVersion()?.tracks ?? [];
+        const mbids = tracks
+            .filter((t) => t.inLibrary && t.mbid)
+            .map((t) => t.mbid);
+
+        if (mbids.length === 0) return [];
+
+        const byMBID = await GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs(mbids, libraryID);
+
+        // Walked in tracklist order rather than flattened, because the
+        // grouping is what lets the caller keep its own order. A
+        // recording with more than one file is a duplicate; play the
+        // first and leave the rest to the feature that exists for them.
+        const paths: string[] = [];
+
+        for (const mbid of mbids) {
+            const first = byMBID[mbid]?.[0];
+
+            if (first) paths.push(first);
+        }
+
+        return paths;
+    }
+
+    /** Play what the user owns of this release, optionally shuffled. */
+    private async playOwned(shuffle: boolean): Promise<void> {
+        try {
+            const paths = await this.ownedFilePaths();
+
+            if (paths.length === 0) {
+                notificationStore.inline(ExploreAlbumRegion, {
+                    text: 'None of these tracks could be found in your library.',
+                });
+
+                return;
+            }
+
+            // `shuffleStart` only picks a random first track when
+            // shuffle mode is *already* on — it does not turn it on —
+            // so the mode has to be set before the queue, not after.
+            if (shuffle && !queueStore.getState().shuffleMode) {
+                queueStore.toggleShuffle();
+            }
+
+            queueStore.setQueue(paths, 0, shuffle);
+        } catch (error) {
+            console.error('Could not play album:', error);
+            notificationStore.inline(ExploreAlbumRegion, {
+                text: describeError(error, 'Could not play this album.'),
+            });
+        }
+    }
+
+    /** Append what the user owns of this release to the queue. */
+    private async queueOwned(): Promise<void> {
+        try {
+            const paths = await this.ownedFilePaths();
+
+            if (paths.length === 0) {
+                notificationStore.inline(ExploreAlbumRegion, {
+                    text: 'None of these tracks could be found in your library.',
+                });
+
+                return;
+            }
+
+            queueStore.addTracksToQueue(paths);
+        } catch (error) {
+            console.error('Could not queue album:', error);
+            notificationStore.inline(ExploreAlbumRegion, {
+                text: describeError(
+                    error,
+                    'Could not add this album to the queue.',
+                ),
+            });
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Offers to acquire the album, but only when the user has actually
      * connected a download client and does not already own it. Showing
@@ -1959,7 +2243,9 @@ export class ExploreAlbumDetails extends LitElement {
 
         return html`
             <section>
-                <h3 class="section-header">Tracklist</h3>
+                <h3 class="section-header">
+                    Tracklist ${this.renderTracklistLegend()}
+                </h3>
                 <div class="tracklist">
                     ${discNumbers.map((discNum) => {
                         const discTracks = discMap.get(discNum) ?? [];
diff --git a/frontend/test/components/album-actions.test.ts b/frontend/test/components/album-actions.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..825d6ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/test/components/album-actions.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
+/**
+ * An album page you can play from.
+ *
+ * `H-13`: no Play, no Shuffle, no Add to queue on the album header, and
+ * green ticks with no legend. The reason it is not simply "add three
+ * buttons" is that this is a **catalog** page — the album on it may be
+ * entirely the user's, partly theirs, or not theirs at all — and a Play
+ * button that plays 7 of a release's 40 tracks under a label saying
+ * "Play" is the page lying about what is owned.
+ *
+ * The partial case is the interesting one and it is **only reachable
+ * here**: it needs a catalog release whose tracklist is partly matched
+ * against the library, which the fixture library (untagged, no MBIDs,
+ * no network) cannot produce. The whole-album case was driven by hand
+ * in the running app.
+ */
+import { describe, expect, it, beforeEach } from 'vitest';
+import type { LitElement } from 'lit';
+
+import '@components/explore-album-details/explore-album-details';
+import { stub, flush, resetHarness, calls } from '@test/support/harness';
+import { fixture, shadow, text } from '@test/support/render';
+
+type Version = {
+  key: string;
+  label: string;
+  sublabel: string;
+  tracks: Array<{
+    position: number;
+    discNumber: number;
+    title: string;
+    length: number;
+    mbid: string;
+    inLibrary: boolean;
+  }>;
+};
+
+function track(n: number, owned: boolean) {
+  return {
+    position: n,
+    discNumber: 1,
+    title: `Track ${n}`,
+    length: 200000,
+    mbid: `mbid-${n}`,
+    inLibrary: owned,
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Put a release on the page without the network.
+ *
+ * The component builds its versions from fetched releases; this reaches
+ * past that and sets the state the header actually reads, which is the
+ * only part under test here.
+ */
+async function withVersion(
+  owned: number,
+  total: number,
+): Promise<LitElement> {
+  const el = await fixture<LitElement>('explore-album-details', {
+    albumName: 'Glass Harbour',
+  });
+
+  const version: Version = {
+    key: 'v1',
+    label: '2019',
+    sublabel: `${total} tracks`,
+    tracks: Array.from({ length: total }, (_, i) => track(i + 1, i < owned)),
+  };
+
+  Object.assign(el, {
+    versionEntries: [version],
+    selectedVersionKey: 'v1',
+    loadingReleases: false,
+    loadingInfo: false,
+  });
+  el.requestUpdate();
+  await flush();
+  await el.updateComplete;
+
+  return el;
+}
+
+const playLabel = (el: LitElement) =>
+  text(el, '[data-testid="album-play"]');
+
+describe('the album header’s primary action', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    resetHarness();
+    stub('library.Library.GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs', {});
+    stub('library.Library.GetFilePathsByAlbums', {});
+    stub('library.Library.GetAlbumTracks', []);
+    // The download actions resolve a target library on mount; without
+    // this the store awaits an undefined binding result and the whole
+    // file dies in an unhandled rejection rather than a failed test.
+    stub('library.Library.GetAllLibrariesWithTrackCounts', []);
+  });
+
+  it('says “Play” when the whole release is owned', async () => {
+    const el = await withVersion(6, 6);
+
+    expect(playLabel(el)).toBe('Play');
+    expect(shadow(el, '[data-testid="album-shuffle"]')).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(shadow(el, '[data-testid="album-queue"]')).toBeTruthy();
+    // No count sentence: there is nothing to qualify.
+    expect(shadow(el, '.album-owned-note')).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('counts itself when only some of it is owned', async () => {
+    const el = await withVersion(7, 12);
+
+    expect(playLabel(el)).toBe('Play 7 of 12');
+    expect(text(el, '.album-owned-note')).toBe(
+      'You have 7 of these 12 tracks.',
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('offers no play button at all when none of it is owned', async () => {
+    // A Play button that plays nothing is worse than no Play button;
+    // the download and want actions are the whole answer here.
+    const el = await withVersion(0, 12);
+
+    expect(shadow(el, '[data-testid="album-play"]')).toBeNull();
+    expect(shadow(el, '[data-testid="album-shuffle"]')).toBeNull();
+    expect(shadow(el, '[data-testid="album-queue"]')).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('asks for the owned tracks’ paths once, by the key it owns them by', async () => {
+    // `perf.m2`'s rule: ask for what the caller uses, once. The caller
+    // here uses file paths and knows its tracks only as recording
+    // MBIDs — `MBTrack.localId` is declared and never written by
+    // anything in the backend.
+    const el = await withVersion(7, 12);
+
+    shadow<HTMLElement>(el, '[data-testid="album-play"]')!.click();
+    await flush();
+
+    const asked = calls('library.Library.GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs');
+
+    expect(asked).toHaveLength(1);
+    // Only the owned ones, and no empty MBID — an empty string matches
+    // every untagged recording in the library.
+    expect(asked[0]!.args[0]).toHaveLength(7);
+    expect(asked[0]!.args[0]).not.toContain('');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('the ticks have a legend', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    resetHarness();
+    stub('library.Library.GetAlbumTracks', []);
+    stub('library.Library.GetAllLibrariesWithTrackCounts', []);
+  });
+
+  it('names the symbol when at least one track carries it', async () => {
+    const el = await withVersion(3, 12);
+
+    expect(text(el, '.tracklist-legend')).toContain('in your library');
+  });
+
+  it('does not explain a symbol that is not on screen', async () => {
+    const el = await withVersion(0, 12);
+
+    expect(shadow(el, '.tracklist-legend')).toBeNull();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/frontend/wailsjs/go/library/Library.d.ts b/frontend/wailsjs/go/library/Library.d.ts
index e3443f0..dd343d3 100755
--- a/frontend/wailsjs/go/library/Library.d.ts
+++ b/frontend/wailsjs/go/library/Library.d.ts
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ export function GetFilePathsByAlbums(arg1:Array<number>,arg2:number):Promise<Rec
 
 export function GetFilePathsByGenres(arg1:Array<string>,arg2:number):Promise<Record<string, Array<string>>>;
 
+export function GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs(arg1:Array<string>,arg2:number):Promise<Record<string, Array<string>>>;
+
 export function GetRemovalImpact(arg1:number):Promise<library.RemovalImpact>;
 
 export function GetScanQueueLength():Promise<number>;
diff --git a/frontend/wailsjs/go/library/Library.js b/frontend/wailsjs/go/library/Library.js
index 8c03669..bbfa8f2 100755
--- a/frontend/wailsjs/go/library/Library.js
+++ b/frontend/wailsjs/go/library/Library.js
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ export function GetFilePathsByGenres(arg1, arg2) {
   return window['go']['library']['Library']['GetFilePathsByGenres'](arg1, arg2);
 }
 
+export function GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs(arg1, arg2) {
+  return window['go']['library']['Library']['GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs'](arg1, arg2);
+}
+
 export function GetRemovalImpact(arg1) {
   return window['go']['library']['Library']['GetRemovalImpact'](arg1);
 }