diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/feedSort.ts b/frontend/src/lib/feedSort.ts
index 2257c8fc..745e6556 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/feedSort.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/feedSort.ts
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ const SORT_MAP: Record<Exclude<SortKey, "shuffle" | "relevance">, { asc: string;
   priority: { desc: "priority", asc: "priority_asc" },
 };
 
-export const SORT_DEFAULT_DIR: Record<Exclude<SortKey, "shuffle" | "relevance">, "asc" | "desc"> = {
+const SORT_DEFAULT_DIR: Record<Exclude<SortKey, "shuffle" | "relevance">, "asc" | "desc"> = {
   date: "desc",
   popular: "desc",
   duration: "desc",
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/feedSort.yt.test.ts b/frontend/src/lib/feedSort.yt.test.ts
index ca8c178e..2e76d4d2 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/feedSort.yt.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/feedSort.yt.test.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,5 @@
 import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
-import {
-  feedSortOptions,
-  sortYtResults,
-  SORT_DEFAULT_DIR,
-  YT_SORT_KEYS,
-  SORT_KEYS,
-} from "./feedSort";
+import { feedSortOptions, sortYtResults, YT_SORT_KEYS, SORT_KEYS } from "./feedSort";
 import type { Video } from "./api";
 
 // The live-YouTube results view shipped with no sort control at all: the provider's order was the
@@ -122,11 +116,17 @@ describe("feedSortOptions", () => {
   // The library feed and the live results used to build their options from two copies of this
   // mapping; one helper means a key cannot get a different default direction in one of the modes.
   it("gives directional keys their default direction and marks shuffle/relevance directionless", () => {
-    const opts = feedSortOptions(["relevance", "date", "duration", "shuffle"], (k) => `label:${k}`);
+    // Literal directions, not the implementation's own table: comparing against that table let a
+    // wrong entry in it pass. Name is the one key that starts ascending.
+    const opts = feedSortOptions(
+      ["relevance", "date", "duration", "title", "shuffle"],
+      (k) => `label:${k}`,
+    );
     expect(opts.map((o) => [o.key, o.label, !!o.directionless, o.defaultDir])).toEqual([
       ["relevance", "label:relevance", true, undefined],
-      ["date", "label:date", false, SORT_DEFAULT_DIR.date],
-      ["duration", "label:duration", false, SORT_DEFAULT_DIR.duration],
+      ["date", "label:date", false, "desc"],
+      ["duration", "label:duration", false, "desc"],
+      ["title", "label:title", false, "asc"],
       ["shuffle", "label:shuffle", true, undefined],
     ]);
   });