[LMB] OT: another stupid CD question

[Meg Justus]

Can you plug a set of computer speakers into the earphone jack on a Walkman-type CD player and have it work?  I have a perfectly good set of relatively new computer speakers, and the real problem seems to be that  the CD drive on my computer makes my MP3 CDs sound scratchy because it's old and decrepit (it's not the speakers or the sound card -- because sound I get off the Internet sounds fine, but anything audio uploaded via the CD drive sounds bad, even copied onto the hard drive), and since I'm probably going to end up replacing the entire computer in the next few months, anyway, I don't want to spend any more money replacing it.  I don't want to use earbuds when I'm home.

Megaera
who has already proved herself amazingly ignorant on these subjects, so not worried about embarrassing herself again