] The simplest magnetic stripe reader
] by
] Luis Padilla Visdómine

I've emailed back and forth with Luis several times, and he is a smart guy. I may add support for this before USB!

Basically you attach either a maghead or a simple cassette tape head to the MIC of a soundcard, and sample really damn fast! He is using SOX to do his sampling, and then a simple C program to act like a filter/ADC to extract the bitstream.

As Stripe Snoop already can deal with bitstreams off cards, this is simply a matter of creating a new Reader class in SS 2.0! (And extracing the needed code out of SOX, which luckily is GPL is SS is!) The best part is almost all architectures have sound support. This might be a better cross-platform reader than any USB type!

The simplest magnetic stripe reader