quotemeta won't do what you want it to. It is intended mainly for inserting fixed strings into regular expressions. It's definitely not suitable for escaping shell arguments; in particular, it doesn't escape spaces. (update: that's a lie; it *does* quote spaces).

You probably want to use a glob instead of forking out to ls, e.g.

my @files = <$playListRow/*>
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Dave.