Possible to output mp3 players sound through laptop's speakers?

[antsct]

Hello everyone.

I have an mp3 player that has an FM radio built into it (Creative Zen Micro). When I take my laptop around, it would be really good if I could output the sound of the radio from the laptop's built in internal speakers (they are actually pretty good - Altec Lansing). Can I do this with some sort of cable by plugging it into the headphone or microphone jack or is there a program I could use to do it?

Thanks.

 

[tweekah]

Assuming your laptop has input jack. http://www.radioshack.com/search/index.jsp?kwCatId=&kw=42-2387&kw=42-2387

 

[antsct]

Thanks tweekah, I just looked in the bag of cables that I have and saw that I actually have one of those cables. So I pluged on end into my mp3 player and the other into my microphone/input jack. I didn't know what to test it with so I loaded up Half-Life 2, typed i nthe console command voice_loopback 1 (play's back anything from the mic) and it worked! I then used Windows Voice recorder, and recorded what was happeneing. Then played it back and it worked! So now I need to find something that will play it back as it is playing. Something it windows for testing speakers?

 

[tweekah]

Shouldn't need any special software for it to work. Just goto your volume control settings and unmute your mic input or make sure volume on mic is turned up.

 

[antsct]

Oh yeah that does work! Thanks man. It seems a bit 'fuzzy' though. Through MSN it actualy sounded a bit better. Anyway, that's basically what I needed. All to simple. Thanks tweekah.

EDIT: It was the microphone boost setting that made it 'fuzzy'. Unticking it made it perfect