2 Computers - One iTunes Library - is this possible?

I have an iMac and a MacBook. Both have iTunes. Most of my music is on the iMac, but I occasionally purchase music on the MacBook. Both computers are usually used at home but in different locations and many times for different purposes. However, I do want to listen to music on both.
With the new Airport Extreme 802.11n will it be possible to consolidate my music on an AirDisk (hard drive attached to the base station) and share the exact same library between 2 computers?
Right now I can of course share libraries between the 2 computers but the libraries are completely separate. I'd like to consolidate to one.
Thanks for any information you have.

Curly Girl
This is definitely possible.
I have moved my library to my external hard drive following this procedure
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301748
Then I just changed the location of the library on the second computer and compacted.
At the moment i have mixed p.c. / Mac network - second mac gets back from the doctors tomorrow and i will experiment more.
The thing I can't do is have the p.c. update when i change the library via the mac and visa-versa , still working on that one
I think it would be easy to create a script/auto to sync the two library file on each mac, hopefully someone else here with greater knowledge can help
Good luck
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