Custom music mod · NFS Unbound · PC
Unbound Soundtrack
Full music customization in Need for Speed Unbound, your way: add your own songs with covers, and keep or turn off the game's tracks — freedom of choice.
Free · Windows 10/11 · Single player only · Fan-made, not affiliated with EA
01What it does
Your songs
mp3, flac, wav, ogg, m4a — as new tracks with your own title and cover, not replacing the game's tracks. Hundreds of songs in one mod.
YouTube · YT Music
Paste a link to a song, a playlist or an album — or many links, or a .txt list. The program downloads them itself; a music video link takes the same song from YT Music, without the intro and skits.
Drop on GO
Race start: 17 s cutscene + 3.45 s countdown — the drop hits at GO. The program finds GO by the bass drop, you can move it with the mouse. Plus a short piece for the finish.
Races · City · Garage
Turn tracks on and off separately for races, the city and the garage — a song can even play only in the garage. Profiles for different music sets. HIGH / LOW — how often a track plays.
One mod
Builds one mod for Frosty Mod Manager. Game files are not changed — turn the mod off and the game is as before.
Clean zip
No music and no game files in the zip: the songs are yours, covers and backgrounds are read from your own game. ▶ — 30-second preview of any game track (needs internet).
02Screenshots
03You need
- Windows 10 or 11 — Microsoft Edge is built in, the window uses it.
- Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable (x64) — the needed files are already in the zip; if the program reports a DLL error, install it from the official Microsoft site.
- Need for Speed Unbound — Steam or EA app.
- Frosty Mod Manager, HarGabt's version for NFS Unbound — releases. Start it once and pick the game. On the first Launch it asks for administrator rights — that's normal.
04How to add your own music to NFS Unbound
- Unpack the whole zip to a normal folder — Desktop, Documents, D:\Mods… Not into Program Files.
- Start Unbound Soundtrack.exe and accept the terms. The first start reads the game — a few minutes, only once.
- + ADD SONG → choose a file → set GO and the finish → Save.Or ▶ FROM YT MUSIC → paste a link (song, playlist, album), many links or a .txt list → Download.A music video link — the program takes the same song from YT Music, without the intro and skits. Before a playlist it shows how many songs, how many you already have, the time and the size; songs you already have are skipped. .txt list: Title,Artist,Link; (Latin letters) — the program shows an example file.Songs live in the Music folder next to the program, one numbered folder per song: Music\1\, Music\2\… By hand works too: a new numbered folder with the song file and a picture.
- BUILD MOD. The mod appears in Frosty Mod Manager's list.
- In Frosty Mod Manager: tick Unbound Soundtrack, turn off other music mods, press Launch.
Offline only
Mods are for the single-player game. Before you go Online, start the game without mods. Playing Online with mods can get your EA account banned.
“Windows protected your PC”
The program is not signed with a paid certificate, so SmartScreen warns about it. Click More info → Run anyway. The code is open — on GitHub and in the “source” folder of the zip.
05If something doesn't work
- The log is data\log.txt (button “Log” in the window).
- To start over: close the program and delete the data folder.
- After a game update the program re-reads the game by itself. If building the mod still fails — check here for a newer version.
- Not compatible with other music mods (Alternate Waves, The Lakeshore Sound) — they change the same files.
- To remove: turn the mod off in Frosty Mod Manager and delete the program folder.
06Changelog
- 1.0.22026-11-13
- New: “Garage” — a third switch next to Races and City: a song or a game track can play only in the garage (suggested by Low Rider). Songs and profiles from 1.0.1 keep playing in the garage as before.
Finnish — 14 languages now.
New look: straight plates and white selection like the game menu, wide headings, a dark background, “where it plays” as icons.
Credits: Low Rider — thanks for the feedback and suggestions.
Fixed: a game track with only “Garage” on could be given away to your songs as “off”; LOW was lost when a song was re-imported from the Music folder. - 1.0.12026-11-13
- Big update.
New: songs from YouTube / YT Music — a song, playlist, album, many links or a .txt list; a music video link takes the same song from YT Music.
13 languages (translated with AI).
Hundreds of songs in one mod (tested with 277).
Race start: the drop hits at GO (17 s cutscene + 3.45 s countdown); GO is found by the bass drop; songs with an early drop get silence before them.
HIGH / LOW for every track; sorting, filters, list view; drag & drop and your own song order.
▶ for your own songs; covers: upload, generate or delete.
Build progress for every song and a “Stop” button; browser choice; “How it works” help; Visual C++ included.
Fixed: building in a folder with non-Latin letters (was in 1.0.0a too); “FrostyHash.dll” error without Visual C++; “Races only” songs played in the garage; non-Latin titles were empty on the in-game plate; long song names broke saving; building again after closing the window mid-build; folder picker, language on the first screens, window size on small screens.
Updating: unpack 1.0.1 to a new folder, copy data and Music from the old one, press BUILD MOD again. - 1.0.0a2026-11-11
- Fix: “Build mod” failed with FileLoadException (FrostySdk, 0x80131515) when the zip was unpacked with Windows Explorer. Nothing else changed.
- 1.02026-11-10
- First release.