Showing file attributes/metadata (e.g. sampling rate) in Finder

Hi, I am a new MacBook Pro user. My first computer was an Apple II, but I have spend my past two decades using PC. I recently bought a MacBook Pro and am very happy with it. I have used it to write music (Sibelius), process recordings (Sound Studio/GarageBand), burn my own CDs, create slideshows (iPhoto) and a DVD (iDVD) in this past month.
However, I find the general 'information hiding' attitude really annoying. The Mac Finder *****. I have thousands of wave files and mp3 files originally created on PCs and copied over to Mac. I need to be able to browse these in hundreds of folders. But The Finder will not show me file attributes other than name, data, size, kind and comment. I need to see other audio attributes such as sampling rate, bit depth, etc.
I do not want to use iTune. It is not a file/folder browser. I know where my files are in the folder hierarchy. I don't need iTune to help me using its flat 2D table view. Besides, I also have thousands of files of other types (e.g. jp3, png, etc). I am not sure iTune can help me look at attributes of these files.
How in world does someone get this type of view on Mac? I have looked at Xfolders, File Sheriff, A Better Finder Attributes and DiskLibrary. None of these provide what I want. I found RAGE Mac Explorer to be extremely attractive. it's got a lot of browsing features. But it still doesn't want to show me attributes other than those shown by the Finder.
By browsing this forum, I realized that I missed another possible candidate: PathFinder. I will try this next. I see posts from 2005 talking about the same problem and proposing PathFinder as the only solution. I simply can't believe such simple tasks cannot be easily done, out of box, without needing to pay for third-party software (if I can find one, that is).
Help!
Fred

This is becoming a monologue. I gave PathFinder a try. I like it a lot. In fact, it is even more powerful in terms of file browsing compared to RAGE Mac Explorer. In particular I get much more detailed "GetInfo" info from PathFinder. It basically returns metadata similar to Preview Info. And you can get these (e.g. sampling rate) from: 1) last Preview column in Column view, 2) GetInfo, 3) Inspector-like permanent preview pane at the bottom of List view, and 4) File Report. You can also show a short "preview" string for each file in List view (similar to the string shown in Finder's icon view).
But... I still can't find a way to add metadata I care about to columns in PathFinder, the way you can in Windows Explorer.
So, I figure my last resort is to create some folder automation to gather info about each file according to its file type, and modify Spotlight Comment for each file. At least in the Finder I can show the Comment field. But oddly, neither PathFinder nor RAGE Mac Explorer lets me show the Comment field.
Sigh.
Fred

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