well spent this evening working out how to connect and get things talking to each other, as a side effect i can now print from the laptop via the pc to the printer!
So if i want to as well as the Internet radio stations i can stream any of the audio tracks i have on either the pc of the laptop.
No this is nothing new as i used to have the pc directly connected but it does seem that the sound is better, still using the analog out from the soundbridge as i have done from the pc before. I feel that this will be a relatively inexpensive way to hear "new" music that i would not have bought.
I think i will be having fun.