QT Playlist Manager

Hi all,
This one is killing me cause it seems simple. Im trying to have QT or any other player for that matter play a playlist on schedule time. An example would be
1. Drag & drop video file(s) into playlist
2. Playlist plays the full list then repeats over and over (Can update on the fly would be a huge bonus)
3. At midnight the player plays a new playlist I have created. (Settings for date and time to switch playlist)
4. I would also be able to create playlists days in advance and QT (or another player VLC etc) would play them in order.
ie Monday has 2 hours of video looped then at 12.00am switch over to my Tuesday playlist and play that etc etc etc
Does anyone know of any software, plug-in, script, action anything that can do this for me. If its a case of writing a small interface or something I would happily pay for it.
Any suggestion or comments would be so helpful. Ive been trying to figure this out for two weeks now and the best I can get it this http://www.sprintbit.com/playlist.htm (I dont like it and its for Windows)
Please help
Many thanks

I hope I can answer this without being rude...
What your asking is beyond the scope of this forum. First off, if your savvy enough you could possible do this. You may need to hire a network/programer administer to accompanist this task. Or you can go back to school for a few semester and learn this.
Just pointing you to software to do this will only generate more questions.
And to ask someone to do the foot work in finding the software and showing you how it works. (if they don't have it in their first) Is asking one do work without compensation.
If I were you, you need to sit down face to face with someone who can do this project. Meaning it may cost you...sorry.
(This is more of a networking question and not a Quicktime question. Quicktime plays only a very small part in your project. The setting up of the networking and scripting is the big past.)

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