Viewing MP3 id3 tags in the Finder?

Is there any way at all to view the artist and album info as a view column in the Finder like you can in Windows? I tend to acquire large batches of music at a time, and I like to organize them into folders before dumping them onto an external drive and loading them into iTunes. Not being able to sort by artist of album really, really makes this difficult.
Anyone have any insight on this? I hate having to flip over the Windows to do this one task, and right now, that's really the only thing I need Windows for at all. Would love to banish MS once and for all.
Thanks!

you can't do it from finder. you can open it in VLC player and do it from there (press command+i in VLC).

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