[LMB] OT: another stupid CD question

H R Stockert the.avatar at att.net
Wed May 2 20:35:26 BST 2007


At 03:09 PM 5/2/2007, you wrote:
>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

It should work if you run the cord from the earphone jack to the line in jack.



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