Share music with all users in my home...

I am soon gonna get a time capsule or an airport extreme or least a NAS drive to attach to my current airport express, to make all my multimedia storage and timemachine backups wireless.
at present my router deals with 3 macbooks, 3 ios devices, 3 android devices, 1 apple tv. the apple devices are used by 3 different apple ids one each for my dad, bro and me.
keeping the android devices aside, i would like that i can keep a single copy of my music in the wireless storage and all apple devices can sync with it. also, i want that the apple tv can tune into the music.
the solution i have in mind is...
create reference libraries for each macs (belonging to each apple id) to the music folder in the nas
use home sharing to make apple tv tune into to music from any one library
this looks good so far but i have a few questions...
where will the music that each user adds to his library go? into the referenced folder in the nas or into his desktop's music folder?
which is the best device to to make this work seamlessly? a time capsule, an airport extreme with attached drives or a nas attached to my airport express?
Neerav

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