john bean wrote:https://github.com/kevinbrewster/MagStriper
Little too late for OP, I fear.
Also, that's a MacOS only solution, not a Java one. Seems to be written in one of Apple's proprietary languages.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.