Using iTunes to manage a song queue at a party?

All,
I guess I am coming late to party on the feature called iTunes DJ, which was killed off with the release of iTunes 11, but I am seeking a solution to the capability of allowing my guests to crowd source a song queue at my parties.
One I have already researched is Party DJ, which seems like a reasonable solution for iOS, but not a MAC OS based iTunes library. Party DJ only offered songs to be played that were actually downloaded on my host iPhone or iPad.  My music library is too large for download to any iOS based device, and the app doesn't seem to present songs that are part of iTunes match (these are visible on the host iPhone/iPad, but not guest iPhone/iPads).  Party DJ also allows anyone's iPhone to take control of playing music (as the source), but music on a guest's iPhone cannot be added to the host queue, it must me connected as the source (taking over the airport express).  If I'm wrong about Party DJ, please let me know, but in my playing around with it that's about how far I got.
Any suggestions are much appreciated?
What I would ideally like to do this the following, and if any iTune's or Apple aficionado's out there can dream up a solution that would be appreciated? 
1.  I have Airport Express and Apple TV, as well as property wide WiFi.   The Airport express is connected to a multi-channel property wide stereo amplifier.
2.  I would ideally like to make my entire music library visible to any guest with an iPhone (supporting android would be great as well).
3.  Allowing guests to add songs from my library to the central queue is the minimum requirement, but allowing them to also add from their personal iPhone libraries to the central queue would be the next most important feature. 
4.  Voting on songs to prioritize playback is great but not critical.
The ideal solution would be an app that allows this, but I'm willing to consider other ideas like having a central server, web interface, or using a host of my own iPads that people can share for this purpose.  (Use them like coffee table controls to add songs to a central play-list was one thought I had to work around.
Thank you in advance for any advice.
MEK

No, unlike WMP, iTunes won't scan your folders for music automatically.
WMP and iTunes have slightly different organisational schemes. In particular iTunes limits file & folder names to 40 characters and they treat characters that are not valid for filenames differently. As long as each media player can find your files it shouldn't really matter.
I meant to recommend that you read the whole thread preceding my post for background. Rather than point the *iTunes Media* folder up to *My Music* my suggestion is that it is better to move all music down into *My Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Music* and have the iTunes Media folder in preferences pointed at *My Music\iTunes\iTunes Media*. A particular advantage of this layout is that it makes your library self-contained (good for backing up) and portable (good for moving to different path/drive).
Again I recommend that you let iTunes organize everything as WMP will catch up. The converse is not true. If you move files around by hand iTunes will lose track of them. If have very definite ideas about how your media should be laid out I do have a script that I use for this but you would need to be able to customize it to fit your requirements.
If you're happy to start over, simply select everything in Music and delete it, confirm that you want to remove the files from iTunes, but that you want to keep the files. A safer bet might be to close iTunes and rename the file *iTunes Library.itl* as *iTunes Library (OLD).itl* and then start iTunes. It should create a blank library for you to start over with. Before starting iTunes move all the music folders from *My Music* down to *My Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Music*.
tt2

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