ATV to external drive?  Saving music on ATV?

Will the ATV read music off an external hard drive? My iMac crashed and I had the HD yanked out. I never downloaded the music to my ATV, that is possible right? I have a iBook that I can use to transfer if the ATV won't hook directly to the HD.
ANY IDEAS?!?

Slide_Shepherd wrote:
Will the ATV read music off an external hard drive?
No, the USB port has no end-user function - it's supposedly for diagnostics.
My iMac crashed and I had the HD yanked out. I never downloaded the music to my ATV, that is possible right?
Not sure what you mean.
If you have the hard drive you may be able to access the data on it and import to a new iTunes library.
I have a iBook that I can use to transfer if the ATV won't hook directly to the HD.
You may need to do that.

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