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Originally Posted by Jstn7477
You cannot physically tie two outputs to one input simultaneously on audio devices. The two devices will interfere with each other 100% of the time, even if only one is playing audio. You need a physical switch to do that (e.g. an A/B selector switch). Also, you aren't getting 5.1 surround sound over a single stereo audio cable.
I would suggest unplugging the adapter as your audio devices could be forcing electricity into each others outputs which may possibly cause damage to them. Purchasing a computer KVM switch (with audio support) would be one way to properly do what you are trying to do.
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Thank you for your input. most likely will try this if the other solution fails.
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Originally Posted by xBruce88x
the best way to properly do this would be to take another audio cable and connect it from the line out/speaker/headphone jack of the laptop to the Line-In on your desktop computer's sound card. Then in the windows audio settings set it to listen to that "device", the line in.
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Would this actually work?
it seems too simple to be real.
I would have to buy new a new male to male cable for this, I seem to have an odd amount of male to female audio cables.