diff --git a/BarWidget.qml b/BarWidget.qml
index 8423f89..b200e98 100644
--- a/BarWidget.qml
+++ b/BarWidget.qml
@@ -7,11 +7,13 @@ import qs.Ui
 import "Model.js" as Model
 
 // Bar pill + popup player for thesinging.bible. Mirrors the site's own
-// control set (Book, Chapter, Style, Voice, Language) and transport (loop,
-// prev, -10s, play/pause, +10s, next, shuffle). Audio comes straight from
-// the site's public R2 bucket (https://audio.thesinging.bible/...), no
-// auth needed. Playback goes through a single long-lived `mpv --idle` process
-// controlled over its JSON IPC unix socket.
+// control set (Book, Chapter, Style, Voice) and transport (loop, prev, -10s,
+// play/pause, +10s, next, shuffle). Language is hard-coded to English —
+// no Language dropdown, see Model.js FIXED_TRANSLATION. Audio comes
+// straight from the site's public R2 bucket
+// (https://audio.thesinging.bible/...), no auth needed. Playback goes
+// through a single long-lived `mpv --idle` process controlled over its
+// JSON IPC unix socket.
 BarWidget {
   id: root
   moduleName: "dotjuice.thesinging.bible"
@@ -44,7 +46,6 @@ BarWidget {
   readonly property var bookOptions: manifest ? Model.optionsForBooks(manifest) : []
   readonly property var styleOptions: manifest ? Model.optionsForStyles(manifest) : []
   readonly property var voiceOptions: manifest ? Model.optionsForVoices(manifest) : []
-  readonly property var translationOptions: manifest ? Model.optionsForTranslations(manifest) : []
   readonly property var chapterOptions: (manifest && selection && !unavailable) ? Model.optionsForChapters(manifest, selection) : []
 
   // PopupCard routes owner.close() back here; without this it would set its
@@ -437,6 +438,7 @@ BarWidget {
         spacing: Style.spacing.rowGap
 
         Dropdown {
+          id: bookDropdown
           width: parent.width
           label: "Book"
           options: root.bookOptions
@@ -444,6 +446,7 @@ BarWidget {
           onChanged: function(v) { root.applyDesired(Object.assign({}, root.selection, { book: v, chapter: 1 })) }
         }
         Dropdown {
+          id: chapterDropdown
           width: parent.width
           label: "Chapter"
           options: root.chapterOptions
@@ -451,6 +454,7 @@ BarWidget {
           onChanged: function(v) { root.applyDesired(Object.assign({}, root.selection, { chapter: parseInt(v, 10) })) }
         }
         Dropdown {
+          id: styleDropdown
           width: parent.width
           label: "Style"
           options: root.styleOptions
@@ -458,18 +462,26 @@ BarWidget {
           onChanged: function(v) { root.applyDesired(Object.assign({}, root.selection, { style: v })) }
         }
         Dropdown {
+          id: voiceDropdown
           width: parent.width
           label: "Voice"
           options: root.voiceOptions
           value: root.selection ? root.selection.voice : ""
           onChanged: function(v) { root.applyDesired(Object.assign({}, root.selection, { voice: v })) }
         }
-        Dropdown {
-          width: parent.width
-          label: "Language"
-          options: root.translationOptions
-          value: root.selection ? root.selection.translation : ""
-          onChanged: function(v) { root.applyDesired(Object.assign({}, root.selection, { translation: v })) }
+        // The card's window is sized to popupColumn.implicitHeight, which
+        // only covers the collapsed rows — Dropdown's own popup is an
+        // overlay that isn't counted, so with nothing after it the last
+        // dropdown's open list renders past the window's bottom edge and
+        // is clipped away. Reserve room for the tallest possible popup
+        // (Dropdown.qml caps at 8 rows) only while one of these four is
+        // actually open, so the panel stays compact the rest of the time
+        // instead of always carrying that dead space at the bottom.
+        Item {
+          width: 1
+          height: (bookDropdown.popupOpen || chapterDropdown.popupOpen || styleDropdown.popupOpen || voiceDropdown.popupOpen)
+            ? (Style.spacing.popupRowHeight * 8 + 7 * Style.spacing.labelGap + Style.spacing.xxs)
+            : 0
         }
       }
     }
diff --git a/Model.js b/Model.js
index 1b471d7..590e649 100644
--- a/Model.js
+++ b/Model.js
@@ -56,12 +56,15 @@ function enabledFirst(list) {
   return list.length ? list[0] : null
 }
 
+// Language is hard-coded to English (sbe) — no Language dropdown, no
+// per-user Spanish selection.
+var FIXED_TRANSLATION = "sbe"
+
 function defaultDesired(manifest) {
-  var t = enabledFirst(manifest.translations)
   var v = enabledFirst(manifest.voices)
   var s = enabledFirst(manifest.styles)
   return {
-    translation: t ? t.id : "",
+    translation: FIXED_TRANSLATION,
     voice: v ? v.id : "",
     style: s ? s.id : "",
     book: manifest.books && manifest.books.length ? bookKey(manifest.books[0]) : "01-genesis",
@@ -203,10 +206,12 @@ function optionsForBooks(manifest) {
   return out
 }
 
-function optionsForStyles(manifest) { return toOptions(manifest.styles) }
+// Alabanza only has Spanish recordings (no sbe/*/alabanza in availability),
+// so it's excluded here to avoid a style that silently plays nothing.
+function optionsForStyles(manifest) {
+  return toOptions(manifest.styles).filter(function(o) { return o.value !== "alabanza" })
+}
 function optionsForVoices(manifest) { return toOptions(manifest.voices) }
-function optionsForTranslations(manifest) { return toOptions(manifest.translations) }
-
 function optionsForChapters(manifest, sel) {
   var chapters = chaptersFor(manifest, sel.translation, sel.voice, sel.age, sel.style, sel.book)
   var out = []
@@ -218,9 +223,11 @@ function parseStateFile(raw) {
   try {
     var data = JSON.parse(String(raw || ""))
     if (!data || typeof data !== "object") return null
-    if (!data.translation || !data.voice || !data.style || !data.book || !data.chapter) return null
+    if (!data.voice || !data.style || !data.book || !data.chapter) return null
     return {
-      translation: String(data.translation),
+      // Forced regardless of what an older state.json saved (from before
+      // Language was hard-coded to English).
+      translation: FIXED_TRANSLATION,
       voice: String(data.voice),
       style: String(data.style),
       book: String(data.book),