Play audio in directly to speakers

[Steve]

On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:53:00 -0000, Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 29 November 2009 18:46:22 Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> I have a Nokia N95 that has terrible external speakers, and a Dell
>> laptop. How can I use the laptop as an amplifier, piping the sound
>> from the mic in jack to the speakers? I figured that this would be
>> possible with Pulse Audio.
>>
> Near as I can tell that should be just the same as plugging a microphone  
> in.
> No? It should just play through. Perhaps you need to fiddle with the  
> inputs in
> the kmix dialogue. Also, perhaps you need to fool it into 'recording' in  
> order
> to hear the input. Not sure what app -- perhaps that KDE sound recording  
> tool
> could do the job - record to dev/null or something. Sorry, the more I  
> type the
> less I realize I know about it :)
>
> Shutting up now.
>
> \d
>
I’ve done this in the past with jack http://www.jackaudio.org/ it took a  
bit of fiddling to get it to work.

-- 
Steve