One of the playlists I use is Genres. Once in a while if I choose a Genre, I will come across an artist that I don't want to hear. In some cases, i know like if i select oldies, and im not into beatles, then I am looking at skipping through close to a hundred beatles songs. Is there an easy way to skip to the next artist in a genre playlist? Or even temporarily exclude an artist from a playlist?

Hold down the "2 (Artist)" button. Instead of "Find-Matching-Artist", it does "Hate-Artist". It'll remove the artist from your running order. ISTR that if you shuffle or unshuffle, it'll come back, though.

This is only available in v2.0