Too many available to possibly find "the best".

My advice to you is to go shopping, use the internet to find out the basics about these players, with an eye towards a few key salient points that would aid the use of such device in the live performance situation:

*I'd want the largest screen I could find, to make it easier to see what's going on under stage conditions.

*Same for buttons and controls, I'd try to find one that had large, easy to identify controls and buttons.

*Perhaps a larger than the average sized pocket mp3 player device, such as a disk player that also played mp3 format as well as CD format would be a good choice. But I would not rule out those that use memory cards, for there may be some that have the screen that is easily readable, controls easily accessed and it may represent a good economical solution.

Any of them, you could use the Earphone output jack as a stereo line out to PA, with the proper audio cord and adaptors.



--Mac