"Quick look" possible for music files in 10.4?

Hi
My wife and I have an editing studio at home, with a sound library (music files of various formats) on a drive attached to a G4 server running 10.4. Our edit machines are also running 10.4 (I have one laptop running 10.5). While we can browse and search the library in the Finder just fine, previewing each track before deciding to use it is a bit of a pain. Since there's no "quick look" keyboard shortcut in Tiger, the only way is to either open the "i" tab under the file we're interested in, then using the Preview slider to play; opening a permanent inspector window with alt-cmd-i and mousing over to that to Preview, or double-clicking the file to pull it into iTunes to play it.
I could set up iTunes on the server and share over the network, but that would only allow previewing, not copying. Is there a way I can preview music files, either in the Finder or a Finder replacement (Path Finder? Better Finder? etc) with slightly more ease?
Thanks!
Matt
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