Is there a way to broadcast an external hard drive to all my apple products?

Im trying to broadcast my external HD to all of my apple devices. between my wife and i we have 2 macbooks,iphones,ipads, and a mac mini it would be nice to be able to share the movies and music across all the devices. i believe that the time capsule could do this but im not sure if that what is soposed to do? if it does how do i load all the movies and music into it. and secondly if time capsule is the best route how would i also hook up the printer to print wirelessly? it only has one USB port. could i have both or is it an either or?

You cannot "broadcast" the content of your External HD to the network from a TC or apple router. The TC is a dumb as a board hard disk in a router.. there is no.. repeat NO, NONE WHATSOEVER, media extensions, servers or the like in the TC.. it is a target for TM backups.
If you want to use for example iTunes to your household as a server (there is no itunes server as such) you must have a computer running itunes.
See http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3819
Home sharing itunes.. just google it.. loads of info out there.

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