Cloud storage import

What it is

Connect a cloud drive once, point Aden at a folder, and it brings the music inside it into your catalogue, not as a pile of loose files, but as the releases, tracks and versions the folder already describes.

Four accounts work the same way: Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and Box.

Aden reads the structure you already work in:

• A folder holding several tracks becomes a release, named after the folder.
• Numbered filenames (01 - Midnight.wav) set the track order.
• Files that differ only by a suffix, Midnight.wav, Midnight (Extended Mix).wav, Midnight_master.wav: land as versions of one track instead of three separate tracks.
• A cover.jpg or the single image in a release folder becomes the artwork.

Files transfer server-side, straight from the drive into Aden's storage. Your browser never downloads or re-uploads them, so a folder of 2 GB masters imports the same way a folder of mp3s does.

Using it

1. Go to Import in your team, open the Files tab and pick your drive.
2. Choose Connect and approve the read-only access Aden asks for. Aden can read your files and folders; it never writes to them.
3. Choose Browse, then tick the files you want or a whole folder. Ticking a folder takes everything audio under it, however deep, whether or not you opened it. Search finds a folder without opening six of them.
4. Review what Aden proposes. Releases, tracks, versions, file sizes. Edit the title, artists, genres, tags, status and visibility inline. Files you have already imported are recognised and unticked for you.
5. Choose Import. Progress rides the app's upload panel, so you can keep working on the page while it runs.

Imported tracks arrive as private ideas, so nothing goes public by accident.

Re-running an import

Scanning the same folder again is safe. Aden recognises files it has already brought over, by content, so a rename or a move doesn't fool it, and leaves them unticked. Add a new master to the folder, re-scan, and only the new file is offered.

Disconnecting

Disconnecting a drive from the chip above the tabs stops future imports. Tracks you already imported keep working: their files live in Aden's own storage, not in the drive.