Latest obsession (controlling Winamp with PHP)

Morning: I have this project I have been running through my head since last July. I want to build a music scheduling and control program. I work for an FM station now and the system we use there is over $250,000 for the basics. The idea is to have either MySQL or MS-SQL hold the song information, build a web based front-end that will allow you to schedule the songs for a 24 hour period and then have PHP on the back-end controlling some MP3 player. I have attempted to get it running using WinAMP, but WinAMP does not close when one song is over, so the script hangs, even setting the time_limit will only increase the amount of time it hangs. I tried mpg123 for Windows and while it works, I would loose the cross-fading and forget trying to do anything else on the machine as it skips. Brings me to the question, I am using the wrong tool (PHP) for this project or do you think I am just not looking hard enough. Would you do something like this with PHP? I know there are a couple of web stations using this set-up on Linux, but I am using Windows for this project. Any thoughts, drop them my way. Thanks, -Scott