IPod Shuffle, headphones and speakers

Will my Bose Acoustic Noise Cancelling headphones plug directly into an iPod Shuffle, or does this require the 3.5 mm stereo headphone minijack? If so is the minijack included with basic purchase? Also, is there a way to connect the Altec Lansing Orbit MP3 Speaker System into the Shuffle?

"Will my Bose Acoustic Noise Cancelling headphones plug directly into an iPod Shuffle, or does this require the 3.5 mm stereo headphone minijack?"
The shuffle has a minijack; the package doesn't include adapters to use other size plugs with it. They're readily available, though; I use an ancient set of AKG K240 headphones with an adapter I bought at Radio Shack - the adapter outweighs the shuffle by a bit. Because of an impedance mismatch the AKG's won't match the volume levels of Apple's earbuds, but that's not an issue for me.
I'm not familiar with either your headphones or your speakers, but those are the things to think about. If the headphones don't have a miniplug, you'll need an adapter. The Altec powered speakers seem to have a miniplug, based on what I saw at their site.
Good luck
srb

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I am using my T500 with an Advanced Mini Dock at work. I keep the headphones (with microphone) plugged into the docking station.
Sometimes I want to listen to the audio on my laptop's speakers rather than inside the headphones. Is there any way I can make this switch without unplugging the jack from the docking station.
I know that above the volume bar for some systems you are able to switch between headphones and speakers and also, up until ~1 month ago I was able to do this from the SmartAudio utility, but now I can't. I can just switch between SPDIF and headphones.
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My temporary fix for this has simply been to switch my headphone and speaker plugs on my sound card with each other and go under the sound properties and turn off Digital output. Not a big deal just annoying having to do this.
I've had this card installed with Windows ME on my system and Windows 2000 and did not have this issue as described above. I simply turned on digital output plugged in both my headphones and speakers to the back of my sound card and had sound from both with no problems what so ever.
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Both stereo?
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(- CMSS to Stereo Surround (if not already working w/ above settings))
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ASIO --> Wave R/L
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ASIO - outputs 2/3 Front L/R, 4/5 Rear L/R
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