diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Playlists.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Playlists.tsx
index 2d6dee92..595def0a 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/Playlists.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Playlists.tsx
@@ -706,7 +706,10 @@ export default function Playlists() {
         >
           {/* Not clipped, so the header's filter popovers can overflow the table box. */}
           <div className="max-w-5xl">
-            <table className="w-full border-collapse text-sm">
+            {/* table-fixed, not auto: every column but the title has a declared width, so the
+                title absorbs the rest and its `truncate` works. Auto layout sizes columns from
+                min-content, and a nowrap title cell's min-content is the entire title. */}
+            <table className="w-full table-fixed border-collapse text-sm">
               <ColumnHead
                 columns={columns}
                 sort={viewSort}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/playlistColumns.tsx b/frontend/src/components/playlistColumns.tsx
index 720e03a9..e8664487 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/playlistColumns.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/playlistColumns.tsx
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ export function playlistColumns({
     {
       key: "title",
       header: t("playlists.colTitle"),
+      // The flexible column: under `table-fixed` (see Playlists.tsx) width:100% hands it every
+      // pixel the fixed columns don't claim. Auto layout could not do this — a `truncate` cell is
+      // `white-space: nowrap`, so its MIN-content width is the whole title, and the column grew
+      // until Length and the remove button hung off the page scroller.
+      width: "100%",
       sortable: true,
       sortValue: (v) => v.title ?? "",
       filter: { kind: "text", get: (v) => v.title ?? "" },
@@ -60,7 +65,7 @@ export function playlistColumns({
             </span>
           </button>
           <button onClick={() => onPlay(v)} className="min-w-0 flex-1 text-left">
-            <span className="block text-[13px] text-fg truncate max-w-[34rem]">{v.title}</span>
+            <span className="block text-[13px] text-fg truncate">{v.title}</span>
           </button>
         </div>
       ),
@@ -68,17 +73,20 @@ export function playlistColumns({
     {
       key: "channel",
       header: t("playlists.colChannel"),
+      width: "12rem",
+      nowrap: true,
       sortable: true,
       sortValue: (v) => v.channel_title ?? "",
       filter: { kind: "text", get: (v) => v.channel_title ?? "" },
       render: (v) => (
-        <span className="text-[13px] text-muted truncate block max-w-[14rem]">{v.channel_title}</span>
+        <span className="text-[13px] text-muted truncate block">{v.channel_title}</span>
       ),
     },
     {
       key: "duration",
       header: t("playlists.colDuration"),
       align: "right",
+      width: "5rem",
       nowrap: true,
       sortable: true,
       // Nulls (live/upcoming, or not yet enriched) sort last in BOTH directions in the old