[pkscout]

Now I have a question / In the configuration settings of Artist Slideshow if I choose to use my own folder of collected images for a certain artist / and I select the override folder option.

The artist bio will not display,even if I have all settings to set correctly / the slideshow is displayed and is excellent,although no bio /if I set back to default then the bio returns.

If I understand you correctly, you are selecting a folder in the ADVANCED settings for the option that says OVERRIDE SLIDESHOW FOLDER. If so, that is the correct behavior currently. It doesn't look like it would be that hard to allow artist bio info to be downloaded even if you are using the override folder, so I can add that to the feature requests for the next version.

Also is it possible to set a sideshow folder and use my own images, for each individual artist.

That is already possible. There is an option in SLIDESHOW called LOCAL ARTIST FOLDER. You point that to the directory that will contain the folders for each artist and then select the IMAGE PRIORITY. You can elect to use only your local images, your local images first and then ones downloaded by the add on, or the reverse. See the wiki page for more information (link in my signature).