Update: Fix should be live in v1.21.3. Please update to the latest version.

Thanks for the review. I had the same need as well. Ideally, Spotify would make it easy to just remove select songs from a queue (as before), but I am still working on an approach that keeps the queue and the playlist updated with non-blocked tracks, but it's quite difficult, thus the current approach for now.

However, if a track is blocked and it comes up in the queue, then it should be auto-skipped within a split second to the next unblocked track, without having the user listen to silence. Spotify must have changed since the last update and broke this feature somehow. Thanks for identifying this bug. I'll take a look and push up a fix. Thanks for identifying this bug.

Until the fix is released, you can either use global keyboard shortcuts or the popup ui to proceed to the next track. Please bare with me while I get this sorted.