Can I connect a portable hard drive to an ipad 4 to play music?

I am buying an ipad 4 for my wife as a present. At the moment we both use PCs as well as iphones to play music which we store on a portable hard drive which can then be moved between our PCs (we have different music tastes so have different itunes libraries!). Is there a way of directly connecting up the hard drive to an ipad 4? It's a portable seagate with a usb cable - the connection at the hard drive end is something I don't recognise! It draws power from the PC.
Thanks for any ideas.

Not unless you purchase a special Wi-Fi external drive that will work with an iPad. Seagate and Western Digital make such products.

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