Import to iTunes at a specific time

Hi, not sure if this should be in the iTunes section so apologies if this is the wrong forum
I would like to import files from a folder to iTunes at a specific time of day when I'm not present, is this possible or maybe is there an app that could take care of this?
any help would be very much appreciated, many thanks in advance.

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