Using Ear Buds with Laptop

I have a Toshiba Satellite, just purchased a little over a month ago. Today I purchased some JVC Ear Buds so that I could listen to music and/or watch a DVD while I'm traveling this year. I plugged the ear buds in but sound is coming from the laptop speakers, not the ear buds. I went to Control Panel and the headphones are not showing up in the sound devices where the speaker is located. Can somebody please help me make these ear buds work? Thank you.

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