Can I share my iphone music library with itunes?

I currently have several apple TV's, music librarys, airport speakers and everything works fine with sharing the way I have it set up.
There are two issues that i would just like to confirm -
1 - I would like to share my iphone library with itunes and have it show up under "shared" it doesnt seem to be possible. I understand that i can play all my shared itunes libraries on my iphone but dont seem to be able to share the music that is on the phone itself.
2 - I seem to only be able to select one airport express speaker set when i am playing music on my iphone. Multiple speakers seem to NOT be an option on the iphone.
Thanks
James

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