Question about opening a file with Quicktime..

Hello,
I would like to open some audio files with QuickTime and not iTunes.
With Panther I used to select ALL the files i needed to modify and then select the default app. for opening them (in this case QuickTime)
Now that I'm running Tiger when I do that all the INFO of each files opens up and I have to make the change one by one.
Any idea?
Many Thanks

Use Option-Get Info.
I don't think this changed from Panther to Tiger, however.

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