Hooking up external speakers to iPhone

Can anyone hep me with an iPhone question. I'm at work and I tried to hook up speakers from my PC. These are regular computer speakers with the green audio plug. After I hook them up, there is no sound coming out of the speakers when I play a song. Music still comes out the iPhone speakers. Thanks

If you are trying to put the speaker plug in the iPhone headphone jack then odds are the plug is too large and is not going in all the way.
You can either get the $10 adapter or use the line out on the included dock.

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