Airport Extreme to stream music?

Currently, i'm pluggin my TM(time machine)-HD (Lacie Rugged) into my MB. The Lacie has USB/FW400/800 ports that can supply power to other devices. Thus I plug my Audio interface into the TM-HD(powered by this) thus everything essentially draws power from my MB.
And of course my speakers connect to my interface.
That's basically my audio setup now.
I'll be getting the airport extreme soon and I had wanted to setup the TM-HD to back up wirelessly via the USB dock on the AE. Am I able to also connect my audio interface to the TM-HD and my speakers to it and thus stream music wirelessly?
bottomline is: I'm just replacing my MB with the AE in the whole setup, can I essentially stream music wirelessly?
I think I might be missing something here but I can't put my finger to it.
Thanks folks!

You can stream to the HDTV if it will accept an ethernet connection, but if you need an analog or digital audio output to connect to your audio system, the AirPort Express is the only device that will allow you to do this.
You still have another issue in your proposed plan if the AirPort Extreme will handle your audio requirements and that is that Apple does not support Time Machine backups to a drive attached to the USB port on the AirPort Extreme due to corruption issues. You can certainly try this anyway...many users do...and many users have corruption issues, so you might want to have a secondary backup plan in place to protect your data.

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