Add track by link

What it is

Aden already imports released music: connect Spotify and your catalogue arrives with artwork, ISRCs and release dates. Unreleased music had no such path. Everything you had not put out yet meant uploading a file, one track at a time, before Aden knew the song existed at all.

Now you can create a track from a link. Paste the SoundCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, YouTube or Spotify address the song already lives at, and the track is created without an upload. It gets a page, a status, a card on your Tracks board, collaborators, splits, todos, release planning: everything the board is for.

What you give up is the part that needs the audio itself. There are no versions, no waveform, and the board's play button stays empty, because Aden has no file to play. You get the host's own player on the track page instead. Upload the master whenever it is ready and the normal version flow takes over.

Using it

1. Go to Tracks → Create.
2. Under the audio dropzone, paste the link into Or paste a link. A badge names the service Aden recognised, and a preview of the player appears underneath so you can check it is the right song.
3. Fill in the title and anything else you want, and create the track.
4. Open the track. The player from that service sits at the top of the page, with Add version underneath it for whenever you upload the real file.

You can add, change or remove the link later in the track's Settings, in the same field the remix listen link uses.

Which links work

Anything is accepted and stored. These play in-page: SoundCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, Mixcloud and Suno. Anything else, including Bandcamp, becomes an Open on … link on the track page rather than a player.

Dropbox links are streamed as plain audio, so the share link plays without sending anyone to Dropbox.

Moving a smart link over

Paste a smart link from Feature.fm, Linkfire, Hypeddit, Songlink, ToneDen and the like, and Aden reads the page: the title, the artwork and the link to each store. A release that is out lands as released and public, with every store link on your public page, so the smart link is no longer needed. The field swaps to the best player (Spotify first), and a line under it says where the details came from.

Only empty fields are filled. A title you typed first stays, and status or visibility you already changed stay too.

A Hypeddit download gate carries other people's releases next to yours, so no store links are read from it. The gate becomes the track's listen button instead.

You can also paste the link straight into ⌘K: Import track from Feature.fm opens this form with the link in it, and Import into adds it to your latest release.