# Release music with OpenAI dots

> Give a dot your release and go to bed.

How do I release music with OpenAI dots? Add the ONCE app in ChatGPT and sign in with your ONCE account once. Every dot you make can then use it. Give one a job like "watch my releases": it ships your release, watches each store roll out, and only pings you when something needs you.

Canonical page: https://once.app/dots

## What is OpenAI dots?

dots are OpenAI's always-on helpers inside ChatGPT. They keep working after you close the tab, on desktop, web and mobile, plus Slack and Teams. A dot uses the apps you've added to ChatGPT, so adding ONCE once gives every dot access. You set the rules per action: act, ask first, or hand it back to you.

dots keep working after you close the tab. Point one at ONCE and it watches your release roll out store by store, checks your numbers in the morning, and only pings you when something needs you.

## What can OpenAI dots do with ONCE?

- Build a release (title, artist, tracks, writers, genre and release date) and check it against the store metadata rules before it goes out.
- Take audio and cover art you attach right in the chat.
- Generate cover art from a description.
- Submit the release to ONCE for Spotify, Apple Music and every other store ONCE delivers to, or just the stores you pick.
- Check delivery status store by store, so you know when you're live.
- Report streams for one release or your whole catalog once it's out.
- List your releases and read back what a release currently says.
- Save a draft and keep filling it in over several messages.
- Scan a track for AI before you submit it.

## Things to say to dots

- "Watch "Paper Planes" and tell me when every store has it."
- "Every Monday, send me last week's streams."
- "Check my drafts and tell me what's missing."
- "Make three cover art options for my EP."

## How to connect ONCE to OpenAI dots

1. In ChatGPT, open Apps and add ONCE.
2. Sign in with your ONCE account once.
3. Every dot you make can use it. Give one a job: "watch my releases."

Not seeing ONCE under Apps? Use Developer Mode instead: turn it on under Settings, Apps & Connectors, Advanced settings, then go to Settings, Connectors, Create, paste the link below, choose OAuth and sign in to ONCE.

Connector link:

```
https://beta.once.app/api/mcp/chatgpt
```

Then say this first:

```
Watch my releases and tell me when every store has them.
```

- Where it lives: ChatGPT on desktop, web and mobile, plus Slack and Teams.
- You stay in charge: You set the rules per action: act, ask first, or hand it back to you.
- Same ONCE price: 1 credit per human song, 2 per AI song. Paid once, live forever.

## Questions about releasing music with OpenAI dots

### What is OpenAI dots?

dots are OpenAI's always-on helpers inside ChatGPT. They keep working after you close the tab, on desktop, web and mobile, plus Slack and Teams. A dot uses the apps you've added to ChatGPT, so adding ONCE once gives every dot access. You set the rules per action: act, ask first, or hand it back to you.

### Is it free to connect ONCE to OpenAI dots?

Yes. Connecting OpenAI dots to ONCE costs nothing and needs no ONCE membership. You pay per release, the same as in the ONCE app: 1 credit for a human-recorded song, 2 for an AI song, paid once with no subscription. Credits are bought in the ONCE app, not inside dots. dots's own plan is between you and OpenAI.

### Does OpenAI dots release music without my approval?

You set the rules per action: act, ask first, or hand it back to you. You stay in charge of what goes out, and you can take a release down whenever you want.

### Which stores does OpenAI dots deliver my music to?

dots hands the release to ONCE, and ONCE delivers it to Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, YouTube Music, Pandora, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, iHeart Radio and the other major streaming and download stores worldwide. Ask dots to pick specific stores, or leave it on all of them.

### Can I release AI-generated songs with OpenAI dots?

Yes. ONCE takes human, AI and hybrid music. Tracks from any AI generator are eligible when that generator's terms allow commercial release. Every upload gets an AI detection scan, and AI disclosure goes to every store.

### What link do I paste into OpenAI dots?

https://beta.once.app/api/mcp/chatgpt. If dots asks for a transport, choose Streamable HTTP. Sign-in is OAuth: you log in to ONCE in your browser and never type your password into the chat.

### What should I ask OpenAI dots first?

Try "Watch my releases and tell me when every store has them." Then hand it real work, like "Watch "Paper Planes" and tell me when every store has it."

## ONCE works with these agents too

- [Release music with Meta Muse](https://once.app/muse) ([markdown](https://once.app/muse.md))
- [Release music with Grok Bot](https://once.app/grokbot) ([markdown](https://once.app/grokbot.md))
- [Release music with Claude Duet](https://once.app/duet) ([markdown](https://once.app/duet.md))
- [Release music with Claude](https://once.app/claude) ([markdown](https://once.app/claude.md))
- [Release music with ChatGPT](https://once.app/chatgpt) ([markdown](https://once.app/chatgpt.md))
- [Release music with Gemini](https://once.app/gemini) ([markdown](https://once.app/gemini.md))
- [All agents](https://once.app/agents)
- [Setup guide in the ONCE docs](https://docs.once.app/user-guide/ai-agents)
