Headphone jack too close for some cables

The headphone jack is Way too close for many 3.5 jacks. We get radio shack cables at work and they are too fat to be plugged in while charging.
A solution for this is to take a razor blade and carefully shave off the plastic until it will fit. Only need to do it to one side, but it works without effecting the quality of the cable.
It's unfortunate, but it's a solution. If it's a higher quality metal connector then it simply won't fit unless you're handy with a file. lol

FYI, I bought the Griffin AutoPilot in order to hook our 4g nano to our car stereo and I didn't need the included audio cable. However I put it to use with our speakers in our bedroom which are simple ones that don't directly support the iPod. With the cable that came with the speakers we had this problem - couldn't plug in a dock cable and the audio cable at the same time. The audio cable that came with the AutoPilot has a much slimmer connector and it does the trick.

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