Laptop audio output to computer microphone?

Question

Iron

Is it possible to stream from a laptop's audio output to a computer's microphone jack using Papa Papa Wire? Those, I put the song on the laptop and on Skype on the computer, all the interlocutors hear this music. (This is an example) Nothing will burn?

Answer 1

Nothing will burn?

No, it will not burn out, since the audio output is designed to connect headphones and has an output power of several milliwatts. This is not enough to damage the audio input, even a sensitive one.
But you will not transmit stereo, since the standard microphone input is single-channel (for stereo transmission, as has been repeatedly noted here, you need a line input). And if the receiving computer is a laptop, then they now have a combined audio jack, input and output on a common plug (like smartphones), and then, in addition to monophony, you will also have to look for a special adapter.

Answer 2

As rightly noted, you need not a microphone input, but a line input. Most likely, at the time of connecting the wire, the computer will ask you what exactly is connected, you need to select the line input (Line In).
By the way, it’s not at all a fact that it will be possible to broadcast this sound to Skype without dancing with a tambourine, because if you look into the Skype settings, you will see. that there you can select only one sound recording device, that is, either a linear convergence or a microphone for voice.

Answer 3

At the beginning of the 2000s, using the Papa Papa Wire, they copied cassettes from a tape recorder to a computer. It was checked on several computers, nothing burned down. So your version should work just fine.

Answer 4

The computer must have a line input (blue connector).