[pkscout]

To pkscout I was wondering how set in stone is artist slideshows image download location I ask this because a lot of people
are using android boxes with limited flash ram space is it possible to download to say a external drive to save space
on the box .

Pretty well set in stone for downloaded images. You could look at path substitutions to have your addon user data stored somewhere else if space is really an issue. The other option is to use Artist Slideshow Helper (it's available in the repo as well) to move the images out of the local addon directory. With ASH you can set any destination you'd like for the images and then select the migration type of MOVE to delete the originals from the source after the copy is done. All you have to do then is tell Artist Slideshow to use that same destination as the local image folder and then have AS use BOTH LOCAL AND REMOTE images. If you do all that, AS will download images to the external location for any artist that has at least one image. The only time AS will use the local storage is for a brand new artist.

This is basically what I do, and I use CronBMC to run AS Helper every night. So every night any images on my local storage get moved to the remote destination.