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If what you want to study is already sitting in your Baidu Netdisk, the traditional approach is to download it to your computer or phone first and then go through the "Upload Audio or Video" flow — which costs time and takes up space. Aelano lets you connect Baidu Netdisk directly, browse your netdisk folders, pick out the audio and video you want to study, and import it in one step. You do not have to download anything locally along the way.
Situations where this helps:
Open the Aelano Home page and go to the upload panel, where you will find the "Baidu Netdisk Import" entry. The first time you use it, Aelano walks you through authorizing your Baidu account.
Only Baidu Netdisk is supported right now. Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, and Alibaba Cloud Drive are not integrated yet. If your content lives in one of those, you can download it locally first and then use Import Local Audio and Video Files.
The first time you open "Baidu Netdisk Import", Baidu's sign-in and authorization page appears. Sign in and authorize with the Baidu account that holds your study content. You only need to authorize once; after that, opening "Baidu Netdisk Import" takes you straight to the file list.
Once authorization succeeds, Aelano shows the folder structure of your netdisk. You can tap into it level by level, or tap "Up one level" to go back. Aelano shows only audio and video files in a supported format (see the formats listed in "Import Local Audio and Video Files"). Other file types are filtered out automatically, so you will not see a pile of unrelated files.
You can tick the files you want one by one and then tap "Import Selected" at the bottom.
If everything in a folder is content you want to study, it is better to import the whole folder directly — that is much less work than ticking files individually, and every audio and video file in a supported format inside that folder comes into Aelano together.
The import goes: fetch the file from Baidu Netdisk → bring it into Aelano → transcribe subtitles automatically. The whole process runs in the background, so you can go do something else. When the import is done, the content appears in your library.
If you add new files to your netdisk later, go back to the Baidu Netdisk import screen and tap "Sync Netdisk" to pull down the latest file list, then decide whether to import the new items.
Why does it say "this file does not belong to the currently authorized Baidu Netdisk account"?
The Baidu account you authorized is not the account the file actually belongs to. The common cause is that you are signed in as account A in the Baidu Netdisk app, where you can see the file, but you authorized account B in Aelano. The fix: remove the current authorization in Aelano and authorize again with the account that owns the file.
What does the "What to do about netdisk throttling" banner mean?
That is Baidu Netdisk's own throttling, not something Aelano causes. Baidu officially limits download speeds for accounts without Baidu Netdisk SVIP, which makes fetching files from the netdisk slow. Aelano cannot work around this; it depends on Baidu offering a faster channel.
Why is a folder empty?
Aelano only shows audio and video in a supported format. If a folder contains nothing but documents, archives, images, and other unsupported formats, you will see "no audio or video in a supported format in this folder" when you open it.
Will imported files be deleted from my netdisk?
No. Aelano only reads files from your netdisk. It does not modify or delete anything there.
Are other cloud drives supported?
Only Baidu Netdisk right now. Other cloud drives are not integrated yet — let us know if you need one.
Are imported files transcribed automatically?
Yes. After the import, they go into the subtitle transcription flow automatically, and you can start studying as soon as that finishes.