I'm a music maker that builds products that help music makers.
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ONCE WEEKLY CHANGELOG
Week: Aug 24 – Aug 30, 2026
Summary: ONCE improved release editing, distribution controls, refunds, webhooks, and delivery reliability.
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Just made a cinematic lyric video for "Winter Song" by Aireline in minutes — built in Pulse Studio. openplaypulse.com/try/job/d5…
AIMD is a better experience than @suno . The tracks may actually sound better too.
It's built for AI music distribution first, and entirely on the @onceforcreators MCP. Generation, registration, and distribution running through one connected pipeline. app.aimusicdistro.com
The part @suno and the others can't match: every dollar from AI distributions flows to the @onceforcreators Artist Compensation Fund. Real artists whose work trained these models get paid when the models earn.
In observing the reactions of the past few months I’ve come to the conclusion that the CEO of Suno was pretty much right when he said musicians “don't enjoy making music”. What he meant though was “watch, all of these non-musicians will enjoy making music more than you do
And I think he's right. The “non-musicians” I’ve observed absolutely LOVE making music! And even more so they enjoy listening to it after they create it and are ecstatic to share it with others.
For those of you using AI tools to make music, where does that fit in your workflow? Do you release it, sit on it, do something else with it?
@onceforcreators built music gen into distribution and 100% of that goes to Artists
We as a general society have been complicit in the condoning and encouraging of musical and artistic homogeneity for so long that we don’t even realize it.
Thank you @youtubemusic for recommending Apparat 🙏 This is everything that I love in organized sound and silence 🤘 music.apple.com/us/album/a-h…
The music industry isn’t broken because streaming pays too little.
It’s broken because the systems that track ownership don’t talk to each other.
Chris McMurtry retweeted
cool shit going on over here
Our engineering team is leading the way on multi-agent orchestration in music distribution tech (not that there's much competition).
Read about our Validation Agent, our bestest boy:
dev.once.app/blog/release-va…
What excites me about AI in music is that it is forcing the underlying disparities and broken systems that were easy to ignore to the surface.
Who controls rights information.
How creators actually get paid.
How opaque the entire chain really is.
I am hopeful
I love this piece and performance so very much. Originally picked it up on a whim at Ear Wax in Louisville while on tour a long time ago music.apple.com/us/album/cen…