How to clean the metal part of earphones

Question

I was wondering how to clean the plug-in part from your headphones

you know how there are the two headphones, then the cable and then at the end the part you plug-in to i.e. your mp3 player. how do you clean that part? because as time goes by dust collects and it messes up the sound...

Also how do you prevent that from happening?

Answer 1

I would take a slightly moist tissue and clean that metal part. There really isn't anything you can do to prevent it, but it's not a big job to clean it anyway.