Using external database as source for automator

Hi
I have approximately 1500 quicktime files which require annotations added to them (title, author etc).
I've been provided a spreadsheet with all the neccessary data. And I know there is an automator action that can add annotations to quicktime files but was wondering if either of the following was possible:
1) Can I get the an automator script to use this spreadsheet as a source for the values it is to enter.
OR
2) If I can get automator to add the files name to the annotations section (under title)
Greatly appreciate any help you can provide.
Regards

The thing to remember is that with the new Apple TV, all these things had to be written from scratch. The code that made these things work on the old Apple TV can't just be ported to the new one, but it had to be re-written.
The situation you describe, which if I understand you would require the Apple TV playing some content on streamed from iTunes and also Airplayed to an Airport Express, whilst the iTunes library is also streaming another track to a different set of speakers sounds like an incidental benefit, rather than what it was originally designed to do (and, I would suggest a fairly niche use as well).
I have to admit, it's the one thing that has been suggested as a use for the old ability to stream from the Apple TV to Airplay devices that can't now be easily recreated (although an iOS device could be used to set up the second stream). My initial feeling is that the demand for this ability would be too low for Apple to be convinced to add it, but I could be wrong.
EDIT to say that, on reflection, this ability could be useful where a household relies on Airport Express to play music in different rooms and where people want to listen to different content from the same library.
In this case, I think that the best solution if Apple wanted to make this easy would be to either allow iTunes to send more than one stream controlled from the computer, or to allow the remote app to get the Airport Express to pull the stream in the same way that Apple TV does.
Using the Apple TV as a kind of bridge is a fairly inelegant work round.
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