Just don't close it off and keep it private for your own apps. Perhaps you regret that design decision, but if that makes it an expensive API call then rate limit it accordingly. I used your C library and I know that you implemented folders as "begin" and "end" markers in the huge, flat playlist list. In the GitHub issue about it that they closed with WONTFIX the motivation was in part that folder support didn't fit well into their REST API, which is some of the weakest sauce I've had in quite some time. This feature is completely private and unavailable to others. Where is the web API support for folders, a feature that you clearly use yourself in the desktop application? The web API has been launched for years without folder support. Three cheers for transparency and a level playing field. "and final approvals for commercial usage will always be left up to the discretion of Spotify and its partners". Talk about subjectiveness and forcing people to jump through a thousand hoops - like they accuse Apple of. Where is the protocol specification or available-for-everyone library for creating a Spotify Connect endpoint? Locked behind Hardware Partner Applications, NDA:s, Evaluation Agreements, New Product Applications, Device Certifications and Distribution Agreements (yes, all of those, according to their own site). They recently created a dedicated site shaming Apple for, in part, not exposing the same internal API:s/abilities/possibilities to Spotify as they did to their own and perhaps some other third party apps. However, that doesn't get them a free pass to get on as high a horse as they try.
I'm very grateful that they provide any means of integration. Many music streaming services have no API:s, and those that do have (to the best of my knowledge) worse API:s than Spotify. Therefore I have no qualms on calling them out on some of their hypocrisy. their old (now deprecated) C-library and now rely on the web API. I am a paying Spotify customer since 2010 or so and have also spent countless hours developing software for personal use integrating with Spotify.
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