there's not susuch a thing as a dumb question!
You can do it in many ways. But here are two popular ones:
(1) Simple. Buy a splitter connector that has mini-stereo plug in one end (to connect it to your heaphones jack in the computer) and RCA jacks at the other end. the RCA jacks will go to one of your receiver inputs and obviously this connection will give you an analog signal.
(2) More expensive. You can buy a sound card for your PC/Laptop with digital outputs for sound and then connect it to your receiver using either the coaxial or the optical connectors. This will give you a higher quality digital connection that will be as good as the music source.
Hope this helps!
