[gibxxi]

Hi. Sorry if this has been asked and answered before. I can't seem to find the answer. When I play music, extrafanart, banner, fanart, folder, logo always get generated in the source music folder. I have a different folder set up for that, but can't seem to stop Kodi from generating all the art in the source music folders. 

Is there a simple step by step procedure to direct Kodi to download images to the folder of my choosing?

 Artist Slideshow only downloads fanart, so if you're getting all that other stuff it's from somewhere else.  I know there are a few addons that do downloads of stuff like that for music (and movies, and TV Shows), so maybe look for something like Artwork Downloader, Artwork Beef, Artwork Organizer, or maybe even cdArt Manager.  Those are a few of the ones I know off the top of my head that download all the extra stuff.  

My assumption is either Artwork Beef or the Skin. I'm having the same issue using Artwork Beef & Arctic Zephyr+ at this point in time. If it is Artwork Beef, then this will not be solvable on Krypton as the author has disabled the music artwork section of the UI under Krypton for some reason. Logic would suggest that the author's code shouldn't be attempting to grab anything for music, if the addon code is not compatible with v17, and only works with v18 Leia. Then again, logic and Kodi addons aren't two words i'd generally use in the same sentence anyhow, as in the main, most of the addons i've ever used on Kodi exhibit some kind of quirkiness somewhere.

Artwork Downloader doesn't support music AFAIK (Because cdART Manager exists) so I don't think it's this one. Artwork Organizer moves artwork to a central folder, and only works when manually triggered by the user, same deal with cdART Manager (with regards initiating artwork downloading), so that pretty much rules both of those out.

I would agree that it's annoying if you want to keep artist folders clean for cross-use with other apps/services, but short of disabling all artwork addons (temporarily), custom skins and/or enabling debug logging and manually sifting through the log, I doubt there's much you can do to eliminate it easily at this time.