I want to store/play music from a NAS drive is this possible?

I have iTunes 10.3.1 on my iMac and can broadcast around the house over my Airport Extreme to my two Airport Expresses. Remote app works great. Now I want to store music on a NAS drive in the hope I can use that as a server to avoid having to keep my iMac running. Is this possible? Hard drive is connected via USB to Airport Extreme. NAS drive hold both CD's as WAV files and a copy of iTunes 10.3.1. Remote app simply doesn't see the NAS.
Any ideas?
Regards,
Andy

Andy Faizey wrote:
Remote app simply doesn't see the NAS.
check out NetPortal for iPhone/iPod Touch or FileBrowser for iPad.

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