Keyboard short cut for movie/audio preview

I want to go through a large collection of audio files (several thousand files) and the simplest way I've found to check out their contents has been to use the finder's preview column. However, it is still rather clunky, requiring a lot of mousing and clicking (click to select file, click in the preview column to play the preview, mouse back to previous column and click to select new file, etc.)
What I want to know is whether there is a keyboard shortcut to activate the preview play. If, for instance, the shortcut was Space (as in the QT Player) then I could quickly move down and preview a long list of audio files with a combination 'Cursor down' and 'Space'.
But Space (as, I suppose, it should) simply jumps to the top of the list of files, rather than playing the preview.
Is there a shortcut or a hack for this?

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Hi Rick,
There may be an even faster solution, but here, that's what I'd try:
Using the finder's preview column,
replace all the clicking and mousing with the keyboard equivalents, that is:
- "click to select file": navigate through the folders in column view with the arrow keys.
- "click in the preview column to play the preview": hit command-O (+ command-W, not at all urgent but if you mind the mess on the Desktop).
- "mouse back to previous column": arrow back.
(of course you knew the Applications Switcher (command-Tab) is set to get you back the previously used app, in you case the Finder..)
- "and click to select new file": arrows etc.
Select all:
Also, what happens if you select all your sound files before hitting command-O?
In Preview this one too is very handy.
Mousing simple:
There is another way of mousing that may be simpler, because it is one simple mouse back and forth travel between the files and the Dock, with no clicking:
Just drag the file directly onto the Dock icon of the application that opens them. It doesn't matter if soon your Desktop is cluttered with dozens of open files. Use option-command-W from time to time or even quit the app.
Hope this helps a little.
Axl

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