diff --git a/frontend/src/components/PlexPlaylistView.menu.dom.test.tsx b/frontend/src/components/PlexPlaylistView.menu.dom.test.tsx
index c32f9372..caa6a4a1 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/PlexPlaylistView.menu.dom.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/PlexPlaylistView.menu.dom.test.tsx
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ vi.mock("./confirmContext", () => ({ useConfirm: () => h.confirm }));
 
 import PlexPlaylistView from "./PlexPlaylistView";
 import { api, type PlexCard } from "../lib/api";
+import { qk } from "../lib/queryKeys";
 
 beforeAll(() => {
   class Stub {
@@ -63,15 +64,15 @@ const ep = (id: string, season: number, n: number) =>
     thumb: "",
   }) as unknown as PlexCard;
 
-function mount(items: PlexCard[], onInfoCard?: (c: PlexCard) => void) {
+function mount(items: PlexCard[], onInfoCard?: (c: PlexCard) => void, { admin = false } = {}) {
   vi.spyOn(api, "plexPlaylist").mockResolvedValue({ id: 5, title: "Films", items } as never);
   vi.spyOn(api, "comfortPins").mockResolvedValue([] as never);
   const onPlay = vi.fn();
   const onBack = vi.fn();
+  const client = new QueryClient({ defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false } } });
+  if (admin) client.setQueryData(qk.me(), { role: "admin" });
   render(
-    <QueryClientProvider
-      client={new QueryClient({ defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false } } })}
-    >
+    <QueryClientProvider client={client}>
       <PlexPlaylistView playlistId={5} onBack={onBack} onPlay={onPlay} onInfoCard={onInfoCard} />
     </QueryClientProvider>,
   );
@@ -112,6 +113,13 @@ const pressKey = (key: string) =>
   });
 
 describe("PlexPlaylistView · a row's menu", () => {
+  it("offers an admin a movie's 'Add to collection…', as its card's menu does", async () => {
+    mount([movie("1")], undefined, { admin: true });
+    await screen.findByText("Movie 1");
+    await openMenu(() => fireEvent.click(moreOf("Movie 1")));
+    expect(menuRows()).toContain("plex.collectionAdd.row");
+  });
+
   it("has no X at rest: each title ends in its '…', which hides until hover or focus", async () => {
     mount([movie("1"), ep("e1", 1, 1)]);
     await screen.findByText("Movie 1");
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/PlexPlaylistView.tsx b/frontend/src/components/PlexPlaylistView.tsx
index 5b78febd..339bb627 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/PlexPlaylistView.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/PlexPlaylistView.tsx
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ export default function PlexPlaylistView({
     ? []
     : menuTarget.kind === "item"
       ? [
-          ...titleActions.items(menuTarget.item),
+          ...titleActions.items(menuTarget.item, { anchor: rowMenu.anchor }),
           ...orderRows(menuTarget),
           removeRow(menuTarget, t("plex.playlist.removeFromPlaylist")),
         ]
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/usePlexCardActions.tsx b/frontend/src/components/usePlexCardActions.tsx
index 846f57ac..2b391e2f 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/usePlexCardActions.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/usePlexCardActions.tsx
@@ -61,14 +61,15 @@ export function usePlexCardActions(handlers: PlexActionHandlers, open: boolean)
   /** `play: false` where the host menu leads with its own Play row (Home's shelf resolves `next`);
    *  `pin: false` where the host carries its own shelf rows or the object is not a pin kind;
    *  `anchor`: the element the menu came from, which "Add to collection…" opens its panel beside —
-   *  without one the row is left out rather than opening the panel at a corner. */
+   *  without one the row is left out rather than opening the panel at a corner. Required, so every
+   *  host menu decides: an optional one let a menu that has an anchor drop the row silently. */
   const items = (
     c: PlexCard,
     {
       play = true,
       pin: withPin = true,
-      anchor = null,
-    }: { play?: boolean; pin?: boolean; anchor?: Element | null } = {},
+      anchor,
+    }: { play?: boolean; pin?: boolean; anchor: Element | null },
   ): ActionMenuItem[] => {
     const { onOpen, onInfo, onToggleWatched, onRestart } = handlers;
     const playable = isPlexPlayable(c);