How to output sound from phone through laptop speakers

[balanga]

Is there any way I can output sound from my phone, eg from an FM Radio app through my laptop's speakers?

In this case a ThinkPad W520 running FreeBSD 15.0.

 

[fff2024g]

yes, i want this too...

 

[Alain De Vos]

On receiving end, put in a bluetooth dongle , use pulsaudio-bluetooth .
Or,
https://audiorelay.net/downloads

 

[sko]

just connect the headphone jack to the line-in on the laptop?

 

[drhowarddrfine]

My phone doesn't have a headphone jack.

 

[sko]

then maybe some fiddly solution like airplay - IIRC you can use audio/shairplay as an audio sink. airplay on android is an absolute shitshow OTOH...

 

[cracauer@]

My phone doesn't have a headphone jack.

The adapter costs less than 10 bucks.

Problem is that many laptops only have mono analog in.

 

[sko]

The adapter costs less than 10 bucks.

Problem is that many laptops only have mono analog in.

given that 99% of all laptop speakers are crap anyways, I guess that's a non-issue...

You can also get USB-Aux/Line-in DACs/adapters for less than 5$, I guess they still offer way higher resolution than any laptop squeaker can reproduce.
I saw they are even available as USB-C-to-USB-C, so this seems to be the easiest solution (given that android isn't broken in some way regarding usb audio output)

 

[Espionage724]

I used Scrcpy briefly for just video, but this says it can do audio too: https://blog.rom1v.com/2023/03/scrcpy-2-0-with-audio/

scrcpy/doc/audio.md at master · Genymobile/scrcpy

Display and control your Android device. Contribute to Genymobile/scrcpy development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Older post: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/scrcpy.93769/

adb might work better nowadays: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/adb-android-tools.93731