Sharing iTunes from a network drive--what's the best way?

I want to put my iTunes library on a disk drive attached to an Airport Extreme Base Station so that any computer in the house can access it. The catch is I don't want to require any particular computer to be running for any other computer to be able to access music. I can do this by pointing each computer to the iTunes library on the network drive, but I understand that this can result in database corruption if more than one computer is accessing it at the same time. Is that correct, and is there another way to accomplish this? Thanks.

If I am correct that model can be connected to the laptop via USB. I would suggest to connect it via USB to the MacBook, create a catalog on the external drive and import the catalog from your local hard drive into the catalog on your external drive. I would also make the catalog on the external drive the master catalog, the catalog where you import all your travel catalogs. Having said this, don't forget to back the external drive up regularly. Lightroom does not like external drives connected via ethernet cables.

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