title: Java library for extracting audio information from MP3 files
body: <p>Is there any freely available library (other than java media framework) that I can use to extract the bit rate (eg. 128 kbps, VBR) and the audio quality (eg 44.1KHz, Stereo) from a MP3 file?</p>
  
  <p>I would like a standalone library that I can incorporate into my application jar, to be deployed on older Macs too that have only Java 1.5 available and I can't get them upgraded or add any big Java library to.</p>
  
  <p>Just to clarify: I will not play, transcode or do anything of the sort with the audio stream itself, I am interested in the metadata only.</p>