Editing metadata in Finder??

okay, that's lame,

now is there a way i could AT LEAST view metadata without one by one getting info for every single file i want to examine, Windows made this extremely easy, so far the one and only thing i've found windows being superior with, I hope Finder has some sort of option available to help

and of course the only metadata that is viewable within column view is a couple things only applicable to all file types, and you can't even customize it like in windows to include other metadata columns, that's lame as heck, and like i said get info window does no good when you are trying to view a large number of files at once, and even then the metadata is not editable within the get info window, so from what i can tell finder needs to step it up big time, don't let windows have an edge, it's such a simple thing to pull off, if windows can do it, why not mac finder, seems like they are dumbing it down just a little much in this regard