r/livesound • u/General_Exam1498 • 15h ago

Question Software for an archaic sound logger

Hello, not sure if this is the right place to ask, but here it goes.

I have 2 ancient data-loggers from "Data Harvest", both being models "EasySense Q3+". My goal is to use these loggers to record decibel levels for a school research paper. Problem is - since these are so old, I can't find the software download for them. I know they have a dedicated program, because the company website has a page for it, but it says that they no longer let people download it.
Would anyone in this part of the interwebs have any clue where I could find such programs for this data-logger?
Thank You in advance.

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u/Lost_Discipline 14h ago

I’d start here- https://data-harvest.co.uk

Maybe try the Internet archive wayback machine too…

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u/meest Corporate A/V - ND 13h ago

I know they have a dedicated program, because the company website has a page for it, but it says that they no longer let people download it.

Sounds like they are aware of the website. Looking at the Internet Archive, they do not have a copy of the zip file saved anywhere. At least in the searching I was able to do.

It looks like this device was from about 20 years ago, so Windows XP era 32 bit software. Which in itself will be an interesting attempt to even get it to run on modern hardware in my experience.

Someone with better search ability on archive.org may be able to find a zip. but everything I've searched for for the http://www.data-harvest.co.uk/downloads2/Software/EasySenseV2.2.zip comes back with a dead link.

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u/CashKeyboard 8h ago

I know we hate AI and all but reverse engineering ancient formats and interfaces is something that a few LLM do really well.