Speakers/adaptors to play and recharge for shuffle 4 gen

Are there any speaker/adaptor combinations that would recharge and play the 4th gen. shuffle?
I am setting this up for an elderly blind relative and would like to have the shuffle plugged in permanently. This is replacing her previous 1st generation shuffle that we had plugged directly into an iHome speaker set.
I have a griffin adapter that that goes from usb to the standard ipod pins. Would I be able to connect the shuffle single pin to usb cable to this adaptor and then this adaptor into a speaker system?
Thanks ...Geri

I've had this problem too, since the 8.1 release? It had been failing in shuffle mode but not in "not shuffle"/"in order". As of today it failed to update play date/count after playing in the "not shuffle" mode. The songs that were played are untouched, but a like number of other random songs that had not been played show today's date.
The apparent lack of support for older hardware is really disappointing. It certainly does not motivate me to go out and buy more Apple hardware which they will soon stop supporting.

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