docs: open plan 009 and record what phase 1 found

The plan's own framing was wrong in a way worth keeping: the badge was
not waiting on the download client, which had largely landed already —
it was waiting on somebody looking at a state nothing produced.

.planning/NOTES.md

@@ -2196,3 +2196,71 @@ Six more things worth keeping:
   hook* is what raises it — and a spec that spends the shared database
   has to give it back, since the 90 specs share one backend in file
   order.
+
+## A state nothing produces is a state nobody has checked
+
+Plan 009 phase 1: `library-status-indicator`'s third state, wired.
+
+The generalisation: **an enum whose last value is never constructed is
+not unfinished, it is wrong** — because everything around it has been
+written, reviewed and tested against the two values that do occur, and
+the code reads as complete from every angle except the one that
+produces the third. `LibraryStatus` has had `queued` since it was
+written: styled amber, given an hourglass, given the sentence "… is
+queued for download". All eight call sites were a two-way ternary. So
+an album on the request list rendered a plus and announced "is not in
+your library" — on the same page, forty pixels from a filled button
+reading "Wanted".
+
+Nothing was going to find that. `make ui-test` and `make e2e` both
+covered the badge; both asserted the states it produced. 007 phase 6
+had rewritten this exact component, and the note it left behind
+("when the download-client integration lands…") was itself the reason
+nobody looked: it names a *future* condition for work that was already
+possible, since `backend/download` was 16 541 lines and 20 bound
+methods on the day it was written. **A written-down reason not to look
+ages worse than the code it is about.**
+
+Six more things worth keeping:
+
+- **The second bug was in the screenshot of the first.** The "Wanted"
+  button rendered a question mark — the missing-icon fallback —
+  because `bookmark-check` is Font Awesome **Pro** and has never been
+  bundled. `offline-icons.spec.ts` asserts `__yjIconMisses` is empty
+  and passed the whole time: no spec had ever put the app in a state
+  where an album was requested. The bundled-icon design anticipated
+  exactly this ("twenty call sites compute their icon name from
+  state") and the *sweep* still could not see it, because a sweep only
+  sees the states it visits. Seventh regression in five plans that
+  only a PNG has caught, and the first found in a PNG taken of a
+  different bug.
+- **A property that does not change does not re-render a child.**
+  `top-results-row` reads the request list, and its host handing back
+  the same `results` array means Lit stops at the property — the row
+  keeps its old badges while the store holds the right answer. The
+  virtualizer rule (`requestUpdate()` on host state) one level milder,
+  and the same fix: subscribe where the state is *read*.
+- **A spec that gives state back has to be run twice to know it did.**
+  The `afterAll` cleanup called `callBinding`, which goes through
+  `window.__yjEvents` — installed by the `app` fixture, not by a bare
+  `browser.newPage()`. It threw where nothing was watching, left the
+  request behind and failed the *next* run with a stale `queued`. One
+  run proves the assertions; the second proves the teardown.
+- **A freshly launched app cannot search its own catalog for ~40 s.**
+  The core artifact merge has to land (`core artifact: merge complete`
+  in `.dev/app.log`), and until it does Explore's search returns
+  nothing at all — *including for rows staged directly into
+  `explore_index` a moment earlier*, which makes it look like the
+  staging failed. Cost a cycle here reading as a failure of the neuter
+  the run was under. Budget 60 s, or wait for the log line.
+- **The neuter has to be per line, not per feature.** Two fixes landed
+  together and each got its own one-line neuter, which is what made
+  the two failures distinguishable: one spec reported the wrong badge
+  status, the other reported `["bookmark-check"]`. Neutered together
+  they would both have failed and either could have been decorative.
+- **The fix is where the rule is, and the rule was in eight places.**
+  Every one of the eight sites was individually reasonable; the third
+  state was missing from all of them because no site owns the
+  question. Same shape as `getCoverUrl()`, `track-index.ts` and
+  `page-header` — when a rule is written per call site, the call sites
+  do not disagree, they are all incomplete in the same way.

.planning/plans/active/009-the-badge-that-cannot-act.md

@@ -0,0 +1,215 @@
+# 009 — The badge that cannot act, and the state it already had
+
+**Status:** active — Phase 1 shipped; Phase 2 is a decision, not written yet.
+**Branch:** main
+**Created:** 2026-08-13
+**Follows:** 008-the-last-audit
+
+## Problem
+
+007 phase 6 turned `library-status-indicator` from a `<button>` that did
+nothing into a `role="img"` badge, on the rule that **a control which
+cannot act is worse than none**, and wrote down what would change the
+answer: *"when the download-client integration lands, the right change
+is to make it a `<button>` again with a handler."*
+
+Two things about that are wrong, and both were found by reading the code
+and then the running app rather than the note.
+
+**The download client has largely already landed.** `backend/download`
+is 16 541 lines: a durable request model with four entity types
+(`artist` / `release-group` / `release` / `recording`, `request.go`), a
+reconciler, a staging importer, six provider adapters, 20 bound methods,
+`downloads-view`, the `download-picker` dialog, and a working **"Want
+this"** toggle on `explore-album-details`. What has not landed is the
+badge.
+
+**And the badge is not merely inert — it is wrong.** `LibraryStatus`
+declares, styles and labels a third state, `queued` ("… is queued for
+download"). **Zero of the eight call sites ever produce it**
+(`explore-view:1839,1877`, `explore-artist-details:2116,2228,2323`,
+`explore-album-details:1641,2283`, `top-results-row:258` — every one is
+a two-way ternary). So an album the user has *already requested*
+displays a plus and says it is not in their library.
+
+### Reproduced, 2026-08-13, before anything was written
+
+Against `SEED=default` with the real 900 000-row catalog:
+`AddRequest({mbid: e51c54ea…, entity: 'release-group'})` for *GOLDEN* by
+Jung Kook, then Explore → search "GOLDEN":
+
+```
+status  not-in-library
+icon    plus
+aria    Album "GOLDEN" is not in your library
+```
+
+and on the album's **own detail page**, forty pixels apart in the same
+screenshot: the button reads **"Wanted"** (filled) and the badge beside
+the title reads **plus / "is not in your library"**. One component,
+two surfaces, opposite answers. This is the header-badge-contradicting-
+Settings failure again, and again only a PNG showed it.
+
+The same PNG showed a second one, which is why it is in this plan:
+**`bookmark-check` is not a bundled icon.** `window.__yjIconMisses`
+reports exactly `["bookmark-check"]`, so the "Wanted" button renders the
+fallback question-mark glyph. `e2e/specs/offline-icons.spec.ts` asserts
+that array is empty and passes, because no spec has ever put the app in
+a state where an album is requested — precisely the "twenty call sites
+compute their icon name from state" case `names.txt` exists for.
+
+## Ordering principle
+
+By **what is a fact and what is a decision**.
+
+Phase 1 is a bug: the badge contradicts the app's own state, and fixing
+it needs no interaction design at all. It also produces the evidence
+Phase 2 needs — once the badge can say "requested", whether it must also
+*become* requestable is a question that can be looked at rather than
+assumed.
+
+Phase 2 is a decision made before any code, in the shape 008 phase 4
+used, because one 20 px circle would otherwise mean three different
+commitments: on an artist card a **discography subscription**
+(`scope: 'future'`, `Expands()`, never satisfied), on an album a
+release-group request, on a track row a recording request.
+
+Phase 3 is whatever Phase 2 leaves. **"Album only" is a legitimate
+outcome** and shrinks this plan rather than inventing work for it.
+
+---
+
+## Phase 1 — the badge tells the truth
+
+**Ships:**
+
+- `utils/library-status.ts` — one definition of the rule, since the
+  reason all eight sites are two-state is that the rule is written at
+  all eight. Owning something outranks wanting it, so `in-library` wins
+  over `queued`.
+- The eight call sites using it.
+- `explore-view` gaining the `downloadStore` subscription both detail
+  views already have (`init()` + `subscribe()`), through
+  `view-lifecycle` — it is a **cached primary view**, so a raw
+  `connectedCallback` subscription would live for the session.
+- `bookmark-check` in `src/icons/names.txt`, and an e2e case that
+  reaches the state that exposes it.
+
+**The badge stays `role="img"`.** Telling the truth is not acting.
+
+**Watch for:** `downloadStore.init()` fetches providers, descriptors,
+downloads *and* requests, so this warms a singleton on a page that
+previously did not construct it — "a store with no subscriber fetches
+nothing" cuts the other way here, and the cost belongs in the note.
+
+### Phase 1 — what actually shipped
+
+Three landings. `make ui-test` 677 → **685**; `make e2e` 90 → **92**.
+
+- **The rule, written once.** `utils/library-status.ts`, the eight call
+  sites, and `explore-view`'s subscription.
+- **The Pro icon.** `regular/bookmark` / `solid/bookmark`, vendored.
+- **`e2e/specs/requested-badge.spec.ts`**, which is also the first spec
+  that reaches the state the icon sweep needed.
+
+Pinned by `library-status.test.ts` (8) and `requested-badge.spec.ts`
+(2). Both e2e cases were watched failing on the pre-fix build by
+neutering one line each — the badge reported `not-in-library` where
+`queued` was expected, and the sweep returned `["bookmark-check"]`.
+
+#### Where the plan was wrong — Phase 1
+
+Six things, and the first is the plan's own framing.
+
+- **"When the download client lands" had already half happened, and
+  the note that said otherwise was written before it.** 007 phase 6
+  left a condition ("make it a button *with* a handler") that reads as
+  future work; `backend/download` was 16 541 lines and 20 bound methods
+  at the time it was written. The badge was not waiting on the download
+  client. It was waiting on somebody looking.
+- **The bug was one layer below the one in the plan.** The plan says
+  the badge cannot act. What the reproduction says is that it could not
+  even *report* — three states declared, two produced, at eight sites
+  none of which knew about the third. "A control that cannot act" and
+  "a control that is wrong" are different faults and only the second
+  one is a lie.
+- **The second bug was in the screenshot of the first.** The "Wanted"
+  button rendered a question mark, which is the missing-icon fallback:
+  `bookmark-check` is a **Pro** name. It has been that way for as long
+  as anything could be requested, and `offline-icons.spec.ts` — which
+  exists to assert exactly this — passed throughout, because it never
+  reached a state where an album was requested. Seventh regression in
+  five plans that only a PNG has caught, and the first one caught in a
+  PNG taken of a *different* bug.
+- **A sibling component does not hear its host re-render.**
+  `top-results-row` takes `results` as a property; `explore-view`
+  re-rendering hands back the same array, so Lit stops at the property
+  and the row keeps its old badges. Same shape as the virtualizer rule
+  one level milder, and the fix is the same: subscribe where the state
+  is read.
+- **The cleanup ran on a page that could not run it.** `afterAll` used
+  `callBinding`, which goes through `window.__yjEvents` — installed by
+  the `app` fixture and not by `browser.newPage()`. It threw where
+  nothing was watching, left the request behind, and failed the *next*
+  run of the same spec with a stale `queued`. A spec that gives state
+  back has to be checked by running it twice, which is what found this.
+- **A freshly launched app cannot search its own catalog for ~40 s.**
+  The core artifact merge (`core artifact: merge complete` in
+  `.dev/app.log`) has to land first, and until it does Explore's search
+  returns nothing — *including for rows staged directly into
+  `explore_index` a moment earlier*, which is what makes it look like a
+  staging bug. It cost a cycle here reading as a failure of the neuter
+  it was run under.
+
+---
+
+## Phase 2 — what a badge click means, per entity
+
+*(decision, before code — not started)*
+
+What Phase 1 leaves for it, now as observations rather than guesses:
+
+- On the album page the badge and the "Want this" button now say the
+  same thing twice, four centimetres apart. That is an argument for the
+  badge being **read-only there** and clickable only where there is no
+  button — or for the button going.
+- A requested album shows an amber hourglass while every track in its
+  tracklist shows a plus, which is correct per the rule and reads as
+  busy. Worth deciding whether a track inside a requested album should
+  render *nothing* rather than a plus.
+- An artist badge would mean a discography subscription, which is the
+  heaviest commitment in the download subsystem behind the smallest
+  control in the app.
+
+---
+
+## Phase 3 — the button
+
+*(scope depends on Phase 2)*
+
+---
+
+## Deliberately not in this plan
+
+- **Deleting the file from disk** (008 phase 4's explicit sequel). Not
+  refused — mis-ordered. 008's own notes record that the *reversible*
+  option shipped with **nothing implementing its reversibility**:
+  `excluded_paths` has no management surface, and "a full rescan clears
+  it" is the escape hatch. Shipping an irreversible delete beside a
+  reversible one that cannot yet be undone is backwards, and the
+  platform trash is a new cross-platform dependency besides.
+- **`a11y.20`, deriving `_itemSize` from a measured row.** Real and
+  confirmed in code — `.track-row` is `height: 33px; contain: strict`
+  with a `rem` font size, so text scales and the box does not, across
+  four lists (33 / 49 / 45 / 45 px). It waits because its only honest
+  verification does not exist yet: both surviving comments
+  (`track-list.ts:349`, `queue-panel.ts:179`) say a wrong `_itemSize`
+  desynchronises the **native scrollbar at 20k+ rows**, and `make perf`
+  has no scroll-fidelity row. That measurement is its own first phase
+  and belongs to a plan that is about it.
+
+## First step
+
+Phase 1, and within it the helper rather than the call sites — the
+reproduction above is already the failing case, and the point of the
+helper is that there is one place for the next state to be added.

e2e/specs/requested-badge.spec.ts

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+import { test, expect, callBinding } from '../support/fixtures.js';
+
+/**
+ * The badge says an album is requested, and the button beside it agrees.
+ *
+ * `library-status-indicator` has had three states since it was written
+ * and produced two: every one of the eight call sites was a two-way
+ * ternary, so an album already on the request list showed a plus and
+ * said "is not in your library" — on the same page, forty pixels from a
+ * filled button reading "Wanted".
+ *
+ * This spec exists at this tier rather than only in the component one
+ * because of what it drags in with it: reaching the requested state is
+ * also the only way to render the requested *icon*, and the requested
+ * icon was `bookmark-check`, a Font Awesome **Pro** name that has never
+ * been bundled. `offline-icons.spec.ts` asserts `__yjIconMisses` is
+ * empty and passed anyway, because no spec had ever put the app in this
+ * state. A name computed from state is only checkable from the state.
+ *
+ * It gives back what it spends: the request is removed in `afterAll`,
+ * and the staged catalog rows are `INSERT OR IGNORE`d so a second run
+ * against the same backend is a no-op.
+ */
+
+/** A release group that exists whether or not this environment has a
+ *  catalog — CI's `YJ_CORE_INDEX_URL` is deliberately dead. */
+const MBID = 'e2e-rg-badge-0001';
+const TITLE = 'Requested Album';
+const ARTIST = 'Badge Artist';
+
+let requestId = 0;
+
+test.describe('the requested badge', () => {
+  test.beforeAll(async ({ browser, baseURL }) => {
+    const page = await browser.newPage();
+
+    await page.goto(baseURL!);
+
+    const res = await page.evaluate(
+      async (row) => {
+        const r = await fetch('/__test/sql', {
+          method: 'POST',
+          headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+          body: JSON.stringify({
+            sql: `INSERT OR IGNORE INTO explore_index
+                    (entity_type, mbid, title, artist_name, artist_mbid,
+                     popularity, listener_count, primary_type)
+                  VALUES ('release_group', ?, ?, ?, 'e2e-ar-badge', 10, 10, 'Album')`,
+            args: [row.mbid, row.title, row.artist],
+          }),
+        });
+
+        return { status: r.status, body: await r.text() };
+      },
+      { mbid: MBID, title: TITLE, artist: ARTIST },
+    );
+
+    // A setup step whose failure is not checked is not setup.
+    expect(res.status, `staging failed: ${res.body}`).toBe(200);
+
+    // A previous run that died between adding and removing would leave
+    // this album requested, and the first assertion here is that it is
+    // not — so start from a known state rather than from the last run's
+    // luck. The 90 specs share one backend in file order.
+    await clearRequest(page);
+
+    await page.close();
+  });
+
+  test.afterAll(async ({ browser, baseURL }) => {
+    const page = await browser.newPage();
+
+    await page.goto(baseURL!);
+    await clearRequest(page);
+    await page.close();
+    requestId = 0;
+  });
+
+  test('a requested album is queued, not absent', async ({ app }) => {
+    const libraryId = 1;
+
+    // Before: the badge for an unrequested album.
+    await app.getByTestId('nav-explore').click();
+    await search(app, TITLE);
+
+    expect(await badgeStatus(app, TITLE)).toBe('not-in-library');
+
+    requestId = await addRequest(app, libraryId);
+
+    expect(requestId).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+    // The badge is told by the store, which is told by the backend —
+    // no navigation, no reload.
+    await expect
+      .poll(() => badgeStatus(app, TITLE), { timeout: 10_000 })
+      .toBe('queued');
+
+    // And it says so where it counts. The label is the whole point:
+    // the plus used to be accompanied by "is not in your library".
+    expect(await badgeLabel(app, TITLE)).toContain('queued for download');
+  });
+
+  test('the requested state renders a real icon', async ({ app }) => {
+    // `bookmark-check` is Pro, so the button rendered the fallback
+    // glyph for as long as anything had been requested. The sweep in
+    // offline-icons.spec.ts could not see it: it never reached here.
+    // Runs after the test above in file order, which is where the
+    // request comes from — but a spec that only passes as part of a
+    // sequence is a spec that lies when it is run alone.
+    if (!requestId) requestId = await addRequest(app, 1);
+
+    await app.getByTestId('nav-explore').click();
+    await search(app, TITLE);
+    await openFirstAlbum(app);
+
+    await expect
+      .poll(
+        () =>
+          app.evaluate(() => {
+            const ds = document.querySelector('explore-album-details')
+              ?.shadowRoot;
+            const btn = [...(ds?.querySelectorAll('wa-button') ?? [])].find(
+              (b) => /Wanted/.test(b.textContent ?? ''),
+            );
+
+            return btn?.querySelector('wa-icon')?.getAttribute('name') ?? '';
+          }),
+        { timeout: 10_000 },
+      )
+      .not.toBe('');
+
+    const misses = await app.evaluate(
+      () =>
+        (window as unknown as { __yjIconMisses?: string[] }).__yjIconMisses ??
+        [],
+    );
+
+    expect(misses, 'an icon name that is not bundled').toEqual([]);
+  });
+});
+
+function addRequest(
+  app: import('@playwright/test').Page,
+  libraryId: number,
+): Promise<number> {
+  return callBinding<number>(app, 'download.Service.AddRequest', [
+    {
+      mbid: MBID,
+      entity: 'release-group',
+      libraryId,
+      artist: ARTIST,
+      title: TITLE,
+      scope: 'future',
+      secondary: false,
+    },
+  ]);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Drop any request for this album, through the raw binding.
+ *
+ * Deliberately not `callBinding`: that goes through `window.__yjEvents`,
+ * which only exists on a page the `app` fixture created — a bare
+ * `browser.newPage()` has no init script, so the bridge is undefined and
+ * the cleanup throws where nobody is looking. The first version of this
+ * did exactly that and left the request behind, which failed the *next*
+ * run of this same spec.
+ */
+async function clearRequest(page: import('@playwright/test').Page) {
+  await page.evaluate(async (mbid) => {
+    const go = (
+      window as unknown as {
+        go?: {
+          download?: {
+            Service?: {
+              ListRequests(): Promise<{ id: number; mbid: string }[]>;
+              RemoveRequest(id: number): Promise<void>;
+            };
+          };
+        };
+      }
+    ).go;
+
+    const svc = go?.download?.Service;
+
+    if (!svc) return;
+
+    const rows = (await svc.ListRequests()) ?? [];
+
+    for (const row of rows) {
+      if (row.mbid?.toLowerCase() === mbid.toLowerCase()) {
+        await svc.RemoveRequest(row.id);
+      }
+    }
+  }, MBID);
+}
+
+/** Type into Explore's own search box and wait for it to settle. */
+async function search(app: import('@playwright/test').Page, term: string) {
+  // A view is a chunk, and `document.createElement` on a tag that has
+  // not loaded yet yields an inert element rather than throwing — so
+  // the box being missing reads exactly like a selector bug.
+  await expect
+    .poll(
+      () =>
+        app.evaluate(
+          () =>
+            !!document
+              .querySelector('explore-view')
+              ?.shadowRoot?.querySelector('input'),
+        ),
+      { timeout: 15_000 },
+    )
+    .toBe(true);
+
+  await app.evaluate((t) => {
+    const sr = document.querySelector('explore-view')?.shadowRoot;
+    const input = sr?.querySelector('input');
+
+    if (!input) throw new Error('explore search box not found');
+
+    input.value = t;
+    input.dispatchEvent(new Event('input', { bubbles: true }));
+  }, term);
+
+  // 60 s, and it is not paranoia. A freshly launched app spends its
+  // first ~40 s merging the core catalog artifact, and until that lands
+  // Explore's search returns nothing at all — including for rows staged
+  // directly into `explore_index` a moment ago. A shorter budget fails
+  // here for a reason that has nothing to do with what is being tested,
+  // which is how this spec first "failed" on a build that was fine.
+  await expect
+    .poll(() => cardTitles(app), { timeout: 60_000 })
+    .toContain(term);
+}
+
+function cardTitles(app: import('@playwright/test').Page): Promise<string[]> {
+  return app.evaluate(() =>
+    [
+      ...(document
+        .querySelector('explore-view')
+        ?.shadowRoot?.querySelectorAll('library-status-indicator') ?? []),
+    ].map((b) => b.getAttribute('label') ?? ''),
+  );
+}
+
+function badgeStatus(
+  app: import('@playwright/test').Page,
+  label: string,
+): Promise<string> {
+  return app.evaluate((wanted) => {
+    const badge = [
+      ...(document
+        .querySelector('explore-view')
+        ?.shadowRoot?.querySelectorAll('library-status-indicator') ?? []),
+    ].find((b) => b.getAttribute('label') === wanted);
+
+    return badge?.getAttribute('status') ?? '(no badge)';
+  }, label);
+}
+
+function badgeLabel(
+  app: import('@playwright/test').Page,
+  label: string,
+): Promise<string> {
+  return app.evaluate((wanted) => {
+    const badge = [
+      ...(document
+        .querySelector('explore-view')
+        ?.shadowRoot?.querySelectorAll('library-status-indicator') ?? []),
+    ].find((b) => b.getAttribute('label') === wanted);
+
+    return (
+      badge?.shadowRoot?.querySelector('.badge')?.getAttribute('aria-label') ??
+      '(no badge)'
+    );
+  }, label);
+}
+
+async function openFirstAlbum(app: import('@playwright/test').Page) {
+  await app.evaluate((wanted) => {
+    const badge = [
+      ...(document
+        .querySelector('explore-view')
+        ?.shadowRoot?.querySelectorAll('library-status-indicator') ?? []),
+    ].find((b) => b.getAttribute('label') === wanted);
+
+    (badge?.closest('.album-card') as HTMLElement | null)?.click();
+  }, TITLE);
+
+  await expect
+    .poll(
+      () => app.evaluate(() => !!document.querySelector('explore-album-details')),
+      { timeout: 15_000 },
+    )
+    .toBe(true);
+}

frontend/src/assets/icons/fa/regular/bookmark.svg

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 384 512"><!--! Font Awesome Free 7.3.1 by @fontawesome - https://fontawesome.com License - https://fontawesome.com/license/free (Icons: CC BY 4.0, Fonts: SIL OFL 1.1, Code: MIT License) Copyright 2026 Fonticons, Inc. --><path fill="currentColor" d="M0 64C0 28.7 28.7 0 64 0L320 0c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64l0 417.1c0 25.6-28.5 40.8-49.8 26.6L192 412.8 49.8 507.7C28.5 521.9 0 506.6 0 481.1L0 64zM64 48c-8.8 0-16 7.2-16 16l0 387.2 117.4-78.2c16.1-10.7 37.1-10.7 53.2 0L336 451.2 336 64c0-8.8-7.2-16-16-16L64 48z"/></svg>

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

@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ import { EventsOn } from '@runtime/runtime';
 import { Events } from '../../events';
 import '@awesome.me/webawesome/dist/components/icon/icon.js';
 import '../library-status-indicator/library-status-indicator.js';
+import { libraryStatusFor } from '@utils/library-status';
+import type { LibraryStatus } from '../library-status-indicator/library-status-indicator';
 import '../catalog-scope-notice/catalog-scope-notice.js';
 import type { CatalogScope } from '../catalog-scope-notice/catalog-scope-notice.js';
 import '@awesome.me/webawesome/dist/components/button/button.js';
@@ -1443,7 +1445,7 @@ export class ExploreAlbumDetails extends LitElement {
      *   - cachedAlbums has MBID match → owned
      *   - any selected version has    → owned (covers local-only albums
      *     a track marked inLibrary       where releaseGroup may be null)
-     *   - else                        → not owned
+     *   - else                        → whatever the request list says
      *
      * Four different claims of decreasing confidence, OR'd together and
      * reported as one tick — the last of which fires when a *single*
@@ -1452,10 +1454,11 @@ export class ExploreAlbumDetails extends LitElement {
      * 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.
+     * When none of them hold the answer is not automatically "no":
+     * the album may be on the request list, which the button directly
+     * below this badge has reported as "Wanted" all along.
      */
-    private albumLibraryStatus(): 'in-library' | 'not-in-library' {
+    private albumLibraryStatus(): LibraryStatus {
         if (this.localAlbumId > 0) return 'in-library';
 
         if (this.releaseGroup?.inLibrary) return 'in-library';
@@ -1477,7 +1480,11 @@ export class ExploreAlbumDetails extends LitElement {
             }
         }
 
-        return 'not-in-library';
+        // None of the five ownership claims held, so the badge falls
+        // through to the one thing this page already knew and never
+        // said: whether the album is on the request list. The button
+        // below it has read "Wanted" all along.
+        return libraryStatusFor(false, this.releaseGroupMBID);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -1882,9 +1889,14 @@ export class ExploreAlbumDetails extends LitElement {
                 appearance=${this.isRequested ? 'filled' : 'outlined'}
                 @click=${() => void this.toggleRequested(request?.id)}
             >
+                <!-- The requested state used to ask for bookmark-check,
+                     which is a Font Awesome *Pro* name: never bundled,
+                     so this button has rendered the missing-icon
+                     fallback in that state ever since. Outline and solid
+                     of the same Free glyph carry the toggle instead. -->
                 <wa-icon
                     slot="start"
-                    name=${this.isRequested ? 'bookmark-check' : 'bookmark'}
+                    name=${this.isRequested ? 'solid/bookmark' : 'regular/bookmark'}
                 ></wa-icon>
                 ${this.isRequested ? 'Wanted' : 'Want this'}
             </wa-button>
@@ -2280,7 +2292,7 @@ export class ExploreAlbumDetails extends LitElement {
                                             )}</span
                                         >
                                         <library-status-indicator
-                                            status=${track.inLibrary ? 'in-library' : 'not-in-library'}
+                                            status=${libraryStatusFor(Boolean(track.inLibrary), track.mbid)}
                                             entity-type="track"
                                             label=${track.title}
                                         ></library-status-indicator>

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

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import { EventsOn } from '@runtime/runtime';
 import { Events } from '../../events';
 import '@awesome.me/webawesome/dist/components/icon/icon.js';
 import '../library-status-indicator/library-status-indicator.js';
+import { libraryStatusFor } from '@utils/library-status';
 import '../catalog-scope-notice/catalog-scope-notice.js';
 import type { CatalogScope } from '../catalog-scope-notice/catalog-scope-notice.js';
 
@@ -2113,7 +2114,7 @@ export class ExploreArtistDetails extends LitElement {
                                                         ${formatListenCount(t.totalListenCount)} plays
                                                     </span>
                                                     <library-status-indicator
-                                                        status=${t.inLibrary || t.localId ? 'in-library' : 'not-in-library'}
+                                                        status=${libraryStatusFor(Boolean(t.inLibrary || t.localId), t.recordingMbid)}
                                                         entity-type="track"
                                                         label=${t.trackName}
                                                     ></library-status-indicator>
@@ -2225,7 +2226,7 @@ export class ExploreArtistDetails extends LitElement {
                             ${rg.date ? html`<span>${extractYear(rg.date)}</span>` : nothing}
                         </div>
                         <library-status-indicator
-                            status=${rg.inLibrary || rg.localId ? 'in-library' : 'not-in-library'}
+                            status=${libraryStatusFor(Boolean(rg.inLibrary || rg.localId), rg.releaseGroupMbid)}
                             entity-type="album"
                             label=${rg.title}
                             size="18"
@@ -2320,9 +2321,7 @@ export class ExploreArtistDetails extends LitElement {
         const artURL = this.thumbnailURLs.get(rg.mbid) || '';
         const year = extractYear(rg.firstReleaseDate);
         const inLibrary = this.libraryMBIDs.has(rg.mbid) || Boolean(rg.inLibrary);
-        const status: 'in-library' | 'not-in-library' = inLibrary
-            ? 'in-library'
-            : 'not-in-library';
+        const status = libraryStatusFor(inLibrary, rg.mbid);
 
         return html`
             <div

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

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 import { avatarBackground } from '@utils/avatar-color';
+import { libraryStatusFor } from '@utils/library-status';
+import { downloadStore } from '@store/download-store';
 import { LitElement, html, css, nothing } from 'lit';
 import { customElement, state, query as litQuery } from 'lit/decorators.js';
 import '@components/page-header/page-header';
@@ -724,6 +726,19 @@ export class ExploreView extends ViewLifecycleMixin(LitElement) {
         this.cancelIndexStatus = EventsOn(Events.IndexStatusChanged, () => {
             if (this.shelves?.state !== 'ready') void this.loadShelves();
         });
+
+        // The badges on every result card say whether something is
+        // already requested, which a background reconcile pass changes
+        // without this page doing anything. Registered `whileActive`
+        // rather than on connect: this view is cached and never
+        // unmounts, so a connect-time subscription would run for the
+        // life of the session from pages it is not on.
+        //
+        // `init()` is four fetches, and it happens on arrival for the
+        // same reason `loadShelves()` does — a user who never opens
+        // Explore should not pay for it.
+        this.whileActive(downloadStore.subscribe(() => this.requestUpdate()));
+        void downloadStore.init().then(() => this.requestUpdate());
     }
 
     /** A debounced search that lands after the user has left the page is
@@ -1836,7 +1851,7 @@ export class ExploreView extends ViewLifecycleMixin(LitElement) {
                                         ${year ? html`<span>${year}</span>` : nothing}
                                     </div>
                                     <library-status-indicator
-                                        status=${this.libraryMBIDs.has(rg.mbid) || rg.inLibrary ? 'in-library' : 'not-in-library'}
+                                        status=${libraryStatusFor(this.libraryMBIDs.has(rg.mbid) || Boolean(rg.inLibrary), rg.mbid)}
                                         entity-type="album"
                                         label=${rg.title}
                                     ></library-status-indicator>
@@ -1874,7 +1889,7 @@ export class ExploreView extends ViewLifecycleMixin(LitElement) {
                                         : nothing}
                                 </div>
                                 <library-status-indicator
-                                    status=${this.libraryMBIDs.has(r.mbid) || r.inLibrary ? 'in-library' : 'not-in-library'}
+                                    status=${libraryStatusFor(this.libraryMBIDs.has(r.mbid) || Boolean(r.inLibrary), r.mbid)}
                                     entity-type="track"
                                     label=${r.title}
                                 ></library-status-indicator>

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

@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ import {
 import '../library-status-indicator/library-status-indicator.js';
 import type { LibraryStatus } from '../library-status-indicator/library-status-indicator.js';
 import { artistLink, exploreLinkStyles } from '../../utils/explore-link';
+import { libraryStatusFor } from '../../utils/library-status';
+import { downloadStore } from '../../store/download-store';
 
 /** Format milliseconds as m:ss. */
 function formatDuration(ms: number | undefined): string {
@@ -50,6 +52,28 @@ export class TopResultsRow extends LitElement {
     // Per-card state: cover images.
     private images = new Map<string, string>();
 
+    private unsubRequests?: () => void;
+
+    /**
+     * The badges here say whether something is already requested, and
+     * this row will not hear about a change from its host: `explore-view`
+     * re-rendering sets the same `results` array back, so Lit stops at
+     * the property and never updates this element. One subscription for
+     * the row, not one per card.
+     */
+    override connectedCallback(): void {
+        super.connectedCallback();
+        this.unsubRequests = downloadStore.subscribe(() =>
+            this.requestUpdate(),
+        );
+    }
+
+    override disconnectedCallback(): void {
+        this.unsubRequests?.();
+        this.unsubRequests = undefined;
+        super.disconnectedCallback();
+    }
+
     static override styles = [
         designTokens,
         exploreLinkStyles,
@@ -255,7 +279,10 @@ export class TopResultsRow extends LitElement {
               ? r.year || ''
               : formatDuration(r.length) || '';
 
-        const status: LibraryStatus = r.inLibrary ? 'in-library' : 'not-in-library';
+        const status: LibraryStatus = libraryStatusFor(
+            Boolean(r.inLibrary),
+            r.mbid,
+        );
         const entityType: 'artist' | 'album' | 'track' =
             r.entityType === 'artist'
                 ? 'artist'

frontend/src/icons/names.txt

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ solid/arrow-rotate-right
 solid/arrows-rotate
 solid/arrow-up-short-wide
 solid/backward-step
+regular/bookmark
 solid/bookmark
 solid/box-open
 solid/check

frontend/src/utils/library-status.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+import { downloadStore } from '@store/download-store';
+import type { LibraryStatus } from '../components/library-status-indicator/library-status-indicator';
+
+/**
+ * What the tick/hourglass/plus badge should say about one entity.
+ *
+ * This exists because the rule was written at all eight call sites and
+ * so none of them had the whole of it: every one was a two-way ternary
+ * between `in-library` and `not-in-library`, and the badge's third
+ * state — `queued`, styled and labelled since it was written — was
+ * produced by nothing. An album the user had already asked for through
+ * the "Want this" button showed a plus and said it was not in their
+ * library, on the same page, forty pixels from a filled button reading
+ * "Wanted".
+ *
+ * Two rules decide the answer, and both are about honesty rather than
+ * precedence for its own sake:
+ *
+ *  - **Owning outranks wanting.** A request that has been satisfied by
+ *    any route — downloaded here, ripped, bought elsewhere — is not
+ *    news; what the user has is.
+ *  - **A request is by MBID, and the badge answers about the entity it
+ *    is on.** A track inside a requested album is not itself requested,
+ *    so it stays a plus. Saying otherwise would promise that clicking
+ *    it later would find *that* recording.
+ *
+ * A `satisfied` request is deliberately not `queued`: nothing is coming.
+ * A `paused` one is, because the user did ask for it and it is still on
+ * the list — "queued" is a slight overstatement of a paused request and
+ * a much smaller one than "not in your library".
+ */
+export function libraryStatusFor(
+    owned: boolean,
+    mbid?: string | null,
+): LibraryStatus {
+    if (owned) return 'in-library';
+
+    if (!mbid) return 'not-in-library';
+
+    const request = downloadStore.requestFor(mbid);
+
+    if (request && request.state !== 'satisfied') return 'queued';
+
+    return 'not-in-library';
+}

frontend/test/components/library-status.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,185 @@
+/**
+ * Plan 009 phase 1: the badge tells the truth.
+ *
+ * `library-status-indicator` has had three states since it was written
+ * — a tick, an hourglass and a plus — and the hourglass was produced by
+ * nothing. All eight call sites were a two-way ternary, so an album the
+ * user had already asked for through "Want this" showed a plus and said
+ * it was not in their library, on the same page as a filled button
+ * reading "Wanted".
+ *
+ * Two tiers of assertion here, and the second is the one that would
+ * have failed:
+ *
+ *  - the rule itself, which is now written once, and
+ *  - a rendered Explore result whose release group is requested,
+ *    because a helper nobody calls is a rule nobody follows.
+ */
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+
+import '@components/explore-view/explore-view';
+import type { Request } from '@store/download-store';
+import { libraryStatusFor } from '@utils/library-status';
+import { Events } from '../../src/events';
+import { emit, flush, stub } from '@test/support/harness';
+import { fixture, shadow, shadowAll } from '@test/support/render';
+
+const SEARCH = 'explore.Service.SearchLocal';
+
+function request(overrides: Partial<Request>): Request {
+  return {
+    id: 1,
+    mbid: 'rg-wanted',
+    entity: 'release-group',
+    libraryId: 1,
+    artist: 'An Artist',
+    title: 'Wanted Album',
+    scope: 'future',
+    secondary: false,
+    state: 'wanted',
+    attempts: 0,
+    ...overrides,
+  } as Request;
+}
+
+/** Put a request list into the store the way the backend does. */
+async function withRequests(rows: Request[]): Promise<void> {
+  stub('download.Service.ListRequests', rows);
+  emit(Events.RequestsChanged);
+  await flush();
+}
+
+const releaseGroup = (mbid: string, title: string) => ({
+  mbid,
+  title,
+  artistCredit: 'An Artist',
+  artistMbid: 'ar-1',
+  primaryType: 'Album',
+  firstReleaseDate: '1994-05-01',
+  popularity: 100,
+  listenerCount: 10,
+  inLibrary: false,
+  secondaryTypes: [],
+});
+
+describe('libraryStatusFor', () => {
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    await withRequests([]);
+  });
+
+  it('says nothing about an entity with no MBID to ask about', () => {
+    expect(libraryStatusFor(false, '')).toBe('not-in-library');
+    expect(libraryStatusFor(false, undefined)).toBe('not-in-library');
+  });
+
+  it('reports a request as queued', async () => {
+    await withRequests([request({ mbid: 'rg-wanted' })]);
+
+    expect(libraryStatusFor(false, 'rg-wanted')).toBe('queued');
+  });
+
+  it('lets owning outrank wanting', async () => {
+    // Both are true of an album that has arrived but whose request has
+    // not been retired yet. What the user has is not news; what they
+    // have is.
+    await withRequests([request({ mbid: 'rg-wanted' })]);
+
+    expect(libraryStatusFor(true, 'rg-wanted')).toBe('in-library');
+  });
+
+  it('does not call a satisfied request queued', async () => {
+    // Nothing is coming: the request is history. An unowned entity with
+    // a satisfied request is a stale row, not a download in flight.
+    await withRequests([request({ mbid: 'rg-done', state: 'satisfied' })]);
+
+    expect(libraryStatusFor(false, 'rg-done')).toBe('not-in-library');
+  });
+
+  it('does count a paused request, which the user did ask for', async () => {
+    await withRequests([request({ mbid: 'rg-paused', state: 'paused' })]);
+
+    expect(libraryStatusFor(false, 'rg-paused')).toBe('queued');
+  });
+
+  it('answers about the entity it is on, not the one containing it', () => {
+    // A request is by MBID. A track inside a requested album is not
+    // itself requested, and saying otherwise promises that clicking it
+    // would find that recording.
+    expect(libraryStatusFor(false, 'recording-inside-rg-wanted')).toBe(
+      'not-in-library',
+    );
+  });
+});
+
+describe('<explore-view> badges', () => {
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    stub('explore.Service.GetThumbnails', []);
+    stub('explore.Service.GetThumbnail', '');
+    stub('explore.Service.GetArtistImageURL', '');
+    stub('explore.Service.GetExploreShelves', { shelves: [], state: 'ready' });
+    stub('library.Library.GetAllAlbums', []);
+    stub('library.Library.GetAllTracks', []);
+    await withRequests([]);
+  });
+
+  async function searchFor(rows: ReturnType<typeof releaseGroup>[]) {
+    stub(SEARCH, {
+      artists: [],
+      releaseGroups: rows,
+      recordings: [],
+      topResults: [],
+    });
+
+    const el = await fixture('explore-view');
+    (el as unknown as { viewActivated(): void }).viewActivated();
+    await flush();
+
+    const input = shadow<HTMLInputElement>(el, 'input');
+    if (input) {
+      input.value = 'anything';
+      input.dispatchEvent(new Event('input', { bubbles: true }));
+    }
+
+    // The search box debounces, so waiting a frame measures the input
+    // echoing its own character.
+    await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 300));
+    await flush();
+    await el.updateComplete;
+
+    return el;
+  }
+
+  it('shows a requested album as queued rather than as absent', async () => {
+    await withRequests([request({ mbid: 'rg-wanted' })]);
+
+    const el = await searchFor([
+      releaseGroup('rg-wanted', 'Wanted Album'),
+      releaseGroup('rg-other', 'Some Other Album'),
+    ]);
+
+    const badges = shadowAll(el, 'library-status-indicator');
+
+    expect(badges.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(2);
+    expect(badges.map((b) => b.getAttribute('status'))).toEqual([
+      'queued',
+      'not-in-library',
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('re-renders when the request list changes underneath it', async () => {
+    // A background reconcile pass expands an artist or retires a want
+    // without this page doing anything, so the badge has to be told.
+    const el = await searchFor([releaseGroup('rg-wanted', 'Wanted Album')]);
+
+    expect(shadow(el, 'library-status-indicator')?.getAttribute('status')).toBe(
+      'not-in-library',
+    );
+
+    await withRequests([request({ mbid: 'rg-wanted' })]);
+    await el.updateComplete;
+
+    expect(shadow(el, 'library-status-indicator')?.getAttribute('status')).toBe(
+      'queued',
+    );
+  });
+});