Setup wireless for external hard drive?

I know that this is not mentioned in the manual at all, but I wondered if I would be able to set up my external hard drive to the AirPort Express and have it transmit those files wirelessly. It's annoying having to drag the external drive around and find a place to plug it in around the room if I want to listen to music and thought this could be a good solution if it was possible.
Basically I just want to know if it is possible and how I would do this really?

The AirPort Express can't use an USB drive, and can't stream content directly from a hard drive; an application actually needs to send the content to it.
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