diff --git a/src/App.tsx b/src/App.tsx
index 19878b7f..d868c047 100644
--- a/src/App.tsx
+++ b/src/App.tsx
@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ import OrbitSessionBar from './components/OrbitSessionBar';
 import OrbitStartTrigger from './components/OrbitStartTrigger';
 import { useOrbitHost } from './hooks/useOrbitHost';
 import { useOrbitGuest } from './hooks/useOrbitGuest';
+import { cleanupOrphanedOrbitPlaylists, endOrbitSession, leaveOrbitSession } from './utils/orbit';
+import { useOrbitStore } from './store/orbitStore';
 import { IS_LINUX, IS_MACOS, IS_WINDOWS } from './utils/platform';
 import { version } from '../package.json';
 import { useConnectionStatus } from './hooks/useConnectionStatus';
@@ -245,6 +247,14 @@ function AppShell() {
     };
   }, [isLoggedIn, activeServerId, setMusicFolders, setEntityRatingSupport]);
 
+  // Orbit orphan sweep — delete our own leftover session / outbox playlists
+  // from crashed or force-closed sessions so they don't clutter the ND
+  // playlist view. Runs once per login; safe and best-effort.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!isLoggedIn || !activeServerId) return;
+    void cleanupOrphanedOrbitPlaylists();
+  }, [isLoggedIn, activeServerId]);
+
   // Reset scroll position on route change (main viewport is overlay scroll)
   useEffect(() => {
     document.getElementById(APP_MAIN_SCROLL_VIEWPORT_ID)?.scrollTo({ top: 0 });
@@ -952,6 +962,19 @@ function TauriEventBridge() {
           await invoke('pause_rendering').catch(() => {});
           await getCurrentWindow().hide();
         } else {
+          // Clean up an active Orbit session before we go down — leaving
+          // the session playlists behind would litter the server. Capped at
+          // 1500 ms so a slow server can't keep the app hanging on quit; the
+          // next launch's orphan sweep is the safety net for anything that
+          // didn't make it out in time.
+          const role = useOrbitStore.getState().role;
+          if (role === 'host' || role === 'guest') {
+            const teardown = role === 'host' ? endOrbitSession() : leaveOrbitSession();
+            await Promise.race([
+              teardown.catch(() => {}),
+              new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 1500)),
+            ]);
+          }
           await invoke('exit_app');
         }
       });
diff --git a/src/api/subsonic.ts b/src/api/subsonic.ts
index 78735743..ac9baec4 100644
--- a/src/api/subsonic.ts
+++ b/src/api/subsonic.ts
@@ -994,9 +994,14 @@ export function buildDownloadUrl(id: string): string {
 }
 
 // ─── Playlists ────────────────────────────────────────────────
-export async function getPlaylists(): Promise<SubsonicPlaylist[]> {
+export async function getPlaylists(includeOrbit = false): Promise<SubsonicPlaylist[]> {
   const data = await api<{ playlists: { playlist: SubsonicPlaylist[] } }>('getPlaylists.view');
-  return data.playlists?.playlist ?? [];
+  const all = data.playlists?.playlist ?? [];
+  // Orbit session + outbox playlists are technical internals. They're `public`
+  // so guests can reach them, which means they leak into every UI picker and
+  // even into the Navidrome web client. Filter them out of every UI call;
+  // orbit's own sweep passes `includeOrbit=true`.
+  return includeOrbit ? all : all.filter(p => !p.name.startsWith('__psyorbit_'));
 }
 
 export async function getPlaylist(id: string): Promise<{ playlist: SubsonicPlaylist; songs: SubsonicSong[] }> {
diff --git a/src/utils/orbit.ts b/src/utils/orbit.ts
index 086213b3..93eeb332 100644
--- a/src/utils/orbit.ts
+++ b/src/utils/orbit.ts
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ export function buildOrbitShareLink(serverBase: string, sid: string, slug?: stri
 export async function findSessionPlaylistId(sid: string): Promise<string | null> {
   const target = orbitSessionPlaylistName(sid);
   try {
-    const all = await getPlaylists();
+    const all = await getPlaylists(true);
     const hit = all.find(p => p.name === target);
     return hit?.id ?? null;
   } catch { return null; }
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ export async function joinOrbitSession(sid: string): Promise<OrbitState> {
     // Guard against a stale outbox from a previous abandoned join attempt —
     // if one exists under the same name, reuse its id instead of creating
     // a duplicate (Navidrome allows duplicate names but it'd leak).
-    const existing = (await getPlaylists().catch(() => [])).find(p => p.name === outboxName);
+    const existing = (await getPlaylists(true).catch(() => [])).find(p => p.name === outboxName);
     if (existing) {
       outboxPlaylistId = existing.id;
     } else {
@@ -514,6 +514,78 @@ export async function suggestOrbitTrack(trackId: string): Promise<void> {
  * out of the tick-merge pipeline so the host-tick doesn't re-insert the
  * same track once it notices the new entry in `OrbitState.queue`.
  */
+/**
+ * App-start sweep: delete our own __psyorbit_* playlists that no longer
+ * belong to a live session. "Live" means either this device's current
+ * session (never touch) or one whose heartbeat is less than
+ * `ORBIT_ORPHAN_TTL_MS` old (could be a session on another device of
+ * ours). Anything older — including unparseable / comment-less entries —
+ * is a leftover from a crash / force-close / network blip and gets
+ * removed so it doesn't clutter the Navidrome playlist view.
+ *
+ * Runs best-effort; individual failures are swallowed. Returns the count
+ * of playlists actually deleted, for logging.
+ */
+export async function cleanupOrphanedOrbitPlaylists(): Promise<number> {
+  const username = useAuthStore.getState().getActiveServer()?.username;
+  if (!username) return 0;
+
+  const all = await getPlaylists(true).catch(() => [] as Awaited<ReturnType<typeof getPlaylists>>);
+  const now = Date.now();
+  const TTL = ORBIT_ORPHAN_TTL_MS;
+  const currentSid = useOrbitStore.getState().sessionId;
+
+  const nameRe = new RegExp(`^${ORBIT_PLAYLIST_PREFIX}([a-f0-9]+)(_from_.+__)?$`);
+  let deleted = 0;
+
+  for (const p of all) {
+    if (!p.name.startsWith(ORBIT_PLAYLIST_PREFIX)) continue;
+    // Only touch our own — Navidrome rejects deletes on foreign playlists anyway.
+    if (p.owner && p.owner !== username) continue;
+
+    const match = p.name.match(nameRe);
+    // Not one we recognise — assume corrupt, prune.
+    if (!match) {
+      try { await deletePlaylist(p.id); deleted++; } catch { /* best-effort */ }
+      continue;
+    }
+    const sid = match[1];
+    const isOutbox = !!match[2];
+    if (sid === currentSid) continue;
+
+    let timestamp = 0;
+    let ended = false;
+    if (p.comment) {
+      try {
+        const parsed = JSON.parse(p.comment);
+        if (isOutbox) {
+          if (parsed && typeof parsed.ts === 'number') timestamp = parsed.ts;
+        } else {
+          const state = parseOrbitState(parsed);
+          if (state) {
+            timestamp = state.positionAt ?? 0;
+            ended = state.ended === true;
+          }
+        }
+      } catch { /* unparseable → treat as dead */ }
+    }
+
+    // Fall back to Navidrome's `changed` timestamp when there's no
+    // orbit-authored heartbeat in the comment — saves us from deleting a
+    // playlist that was just created seconds ago.
+    if (timestamp === 0 && p.changed) {
+      const parsed = Date.parse(p.changed);
+      if (!isNaN(parsed)) timestamp = parsed;
+    }
+
+    const stale = timestamp === 0 || (now - timestamp > TTL);
+    if (ended || stale) {
+      try { await deletePlaylist(p.id); deleted++; } catch { /* best-effort */ }
+    }
+  }
+  return deleted;
+}
+
 export async function hostEnqueueToOrbit(trackId: string): Promise<void> {
   const store = useOrbitStore.getState();
   if (store.role !== 'host' || !store.state || !store.sessionPlaylistId) {
@@ -557,7 +629,7 @@ function parseOutboxPlaylistName(name: string, sid: string): string | null {
  * Skips the host's own outbox — that's heartbeat-only, not a suggestion channel.
  */
 async function listGuestOutboxes(sid: string, hostUsername: string): Promise<Array<{ id: string; name: string; user: string }>> {
-  const all = await getPlaylists().catch(() => []);
+  const all = await getPlaylists(true).catch(() => []);
   const result: Array<{ id: string; name: string; user: string }> = [];
   for (const p of all) {
     const user = parseOutboxPlaylistName(p.name, sid);
@@ -619,6 +691,15 @@ export async function sweepGuestOutboxes(sid: string, hostUsername: string): Pro
 /** How long we consider a heartbeat still fresh. Longer than the guest tick so a single missed beat is tolerated. */
 export const ORBIT_HEARTBEAT_ALIVE_MS = 30_000;
 
+/**
+ * Grace window for the app-start orphan sweep. Has to be comfortably
+ * larger than the outbox heartbeat interval (10 s) and the session state
+ * tick (2.5 s) so a session running on the user's other device doesn't
+ * get deleted on a transient slow tick. 2× ALIVE window is the minimum
+ * sane value.
+ */
+export const ORBIT_ORPHAN_TTL_MS = 60_000;
+
 /** Shuffle cadence — queue is reshuffled once every interval. */
 export const ORBIT_SHUFFLE_INTERVAL_MS = 15 * 60_000;
 
@@ -684,7 +765,7 @@ export async function kickOrbitParticipant(username: string): Promise<void> {
   // carrying outbox ids in the state blob just for this operation.
   const outboxName = orbitOutboxPlaylistName(sid, username);
   try {
-    const all = await getPlaylists();
+    const all = await getPlaylists(true);
     const hit = all.find(p => p.name === outboxName);
     if (hit) await deletePlaylist(hit.id);
   } catch { /* best-effort */ }
@@ -731,7 +812,7 @@ export async function removeOrbitParticipant(username: string): Promise<void> {
   // playlist (they'll create a new one on rejoin via joinOrbitSession).
   const outboxName = orbitOutboxPlaylistName(sid, username);
   try {
-    const all = await getPlaylists();
+    const all = await getPlaylists(true);
     const hit = all.find(p => p.name === outboxName);
     if (hit) await deletePlaylist(hit.id);
   } catch { /* best-effort */ }