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Question about title formatting

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[$char(9) $if(%album%,$abbr(%album%,25),%_directoryname%)    ::    %_length%]

I use that to display Track Length and Album Name (or directory name).  They are aligned to the right.  Now, here is my problem.

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Artist - BlahBlahBlah               Album Name  ::  4:20
Another Artist - NahNah            Album Name  ::  10:57

When the time is longer than 9:59 I get a space in there that I don't want.  Is there some formatting string I can put in there to insure that this doesn't happen? 

For instance:

If the time is less than 9:59 seconds, display like this "%artist% - %title%    %album%  ::  %length%" if over 9:59 seconds display like this "same as above, but with one less space after the :: section"

I went through the documentation, but some of this is waaayyyy over my head.  I ran a search, but the only thing I could think of was "title formatting" which returned some interesting results, but not what I was looking for.  If this answer is super-obvious, forgive me, I have only been using fb2k for about 10 months now.  I am just branching out into the more complex formatting strings (was using %artist% - %title% for the longest time).

Thanks

PS: Using version 0.8.3 on Windows XP SP2, up to date.
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Question about title formatting

Reply #1 –
Why not
[$if(%album%,$abbr(%album%,25),%_directoryname%)    ::    $char(9) %_length%]

or consider $pad() [or $pad_right()]
[$char(9) $if(%album%,$abbr(%album%,25),%_directoryname%)    ::    $pad(%_length%,6)]

Question about title formatting

Reply #2 –
Hello, richard123

The tags you gave me didn't yield the results I had wanted, but they put me in the right direction, nonetheless.

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[$char(9) $if(%album%,$abbr(%album%,25),%_directoryname%)    $pad(::,5) $pad_right(%_length%,5,0)]

I went with this, and just padded the spaces with a 0, which looks okay from where I am sitting.  Thanks a lot, would have taken me ages to get this on my own.
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Question about title formatting

Reply #3 –
Using $tab() seems like the most sensible suggestion, but just for messing about I use:

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$num($div(%_length_seconds%,60),2):$num($mod(%_length_seconds%,60),2)

... to display durations.  This provides a 00:00 format so all durations (under 100:00) are the same length in a monospace font.

I also have an adaption that flashes the colon every second, but that's just silly.
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