diff --git a/src/modules/echo-cancel/module-echo-cancel.c b/src/modules/echo-cancel/module-echo-cancel.c
index 3d63ea608..4c7ca228a 100644
--- a/src/modules/echo-cancel/module-echo-cancel.c
+++ b/src/modules/echo-cancel/module-echo-cancel.c
@@ -2067,18 +2067,18 @@ int pa__init(pa_module*m) {
     }
 
     if (u->save_aec) {
-        pa_log("Creating AEC files in /tmp");
-        u->captured_file = fopen("/tmp/aec_rec.sw", "wb");
+        pa_log("Creating AEC files in @TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp");
+        u->captured_file = fopen("@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp/aec_rec.sw", "wb");
         if (u->captured_file == NULL)
             perror ("fopen failed");
-        u->played_file = fopen("/tmp/aec_play.sw", "wb");
+        u->played_file = fopen("@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp/aec_play.sw", "wb");
         if (u->played_file == NULL)
             perror ("fopen failed");
-        u->canceled_file = fopen("/tmp/aec_out.sw", "wb");
+        u->canceled_file = fopen("@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp/aec_out.sw", "wb");
         if (u->canceled_file == NULL)
             perror ("fopen failed");
         if (u->ec->params.drift_compensation) {
-            u->drift_file = fopen("/tmp/aec_drift.txt", "w");
+            u->drift_file = fopen("@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp/aec_drift.txt", "w");
             if (u->drift_file == NULL)
                 perror ("fopen failed");
         }
diff --git a/src/modules/module-pipe-source.c b/src/modules/module-pipe-source.c
index 32b35c163..eefd19861 100644
--- a/src/modules/module-pipe-source.c
+++ b/src/modules/module-pipe-source.c
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ PA_MODULE_USAGE(
         "channels=<number of channels> "
         "channel_map=<channel map>");
 
-#define DEFAULT_FILE_NAME "/tmp/music.input"
+#define DEFAULT_FILE_NAME "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp/music.input"
 #define DEFAULT_SOURCE_NAME "fifo_input"
 
 struct userdata {
diff --git a/src/modules/module-protocol-stub.c b/src/modules/module-protocol-stub.c
index 5dd3fe079..b651b0c9b 100644
--- a/src/modules/module-protocol-stub.c
+++ b/src/modules/module-protocol-stub.c
@@ -303,13 +303,13 @@ int pa__init(pa_module*m) {
     /* Windows doesn't support getuid(), so we ignore the per-user Esound socket compile flag.
      * Moreover, Esound Unix sockets haven't been supported on Windows historically. */
 #    if defined(USE_PER_USER_ESOUND_SOCKET) && !defined(OS_IS_WIN32)
-    u->socket_path = pa_sprintf_malloc("/tmp/.esd-%lu/socket", (unsigned long) getuid());
+    u->socket_path = pa_sprintf_malloc("@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp/.esd-%lu/socket", (unsigned long) getuid());
 #    else
-    u->socket_path = pa_xstrdup("/tmp/.esd/socket");
+    u->socket_path = pa_xstrdup("@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp/.esd/socket");
 #    endif
 
     /* This socket doesn't reside in our own runtime dir but in
-     * /tmp/.esd/, hence we have to create the dir first */
+     * @TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp/.esd/, hence we have to create the dir first */
 
     if (pa_make_secure_parent_dir(u->socket_path, pa_in_system_mode() ? 0755U : 0700U, (uid_t)-1, (gid_t)-1, false) < 0) {
         pa_log("Failed to create socket directory '%s': %s\n", u->socket_path, pa_cstrerror(errno));
diff --git a/src/pulsecore/core-util.c b/src/pulsecore/core-util.c
index c383a61c0..a5da743eb 100644
--- a/src/pulsecore/core-util.c
+++ b/src/pulsecore/core-util.c
@@ -1765,7 +1765,7 @@ char *pa_get_runtime_dir(void) {
      * users, too. Since we need POSIX locking and UNIX sockets in
      * this directory, we try XDG_RUNTIME_DIR first, and if that isn't
      * set create a directory in $HOME and link it to a random subdir
-     * in /tmp, if it was not explicitly configured. */
+     * in @TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp, if it was not explicitly configured. */
 
     m = pa_in_system_mode() ? 0755U : 0700U;
 
@@ -1838,7 +1838,7 @@ char *pa_get_runtime_dir(void) {
 
 #ifdef HAVE_SYMLINK
             /* Hmm, so the runtime directory didn't exist yet, so let's
-             * create one in /tmp and symlink that to it */
+             * create one in @TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp and symlink that to it */
 
             if (make_random_dir_and_link(0700, k) < 0) {
 
@@ -3228,8 +3228,8 @@ char *pa_machine_id(void) {
     if ((f = pa_fopen_cloexec(PA_MACHINE_ID, "r")) ||
         (f = pa_fopen_cloexec(PA_MACHINE_ID_FALLBACK, "r")) ||
 #if !defined(OS_IS_WIN32)
-        (f = pa_fopen_cloexec("/etc/machine-id", "r")) ||
-        (f = pa_fopen_cloexec("/var/lib/dbus/machine-id", "r"))
+        (f = pa_fopen_cloexec("@TERMUX_PREFIX@/etc/machine-id", "r")) ||
+        (f = pa_fopen_cloexec("@TERMUX_PREFIX@/var/lib/dbus/machine-id", "r"))
 #else
         false
 #endif
@@ -3594,7 +3594,7 @@ const char *pa_get_temp_dir(void) {
         pa_is_path_absolute(t))
         return t;
 
-    return "/tmp";
+    return "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp";
 }
 
 int pa_open_cloexec(const char *fn, int flags, mode_t mode) {
diff --git a/src/pulsecore/esound.h b/src/pulsecore/esound.h
index 4ca0e0424..032298bd3 100644
--- a/src/pulsecore/esound.h
+++ b/src/pulsecore/esound.h
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
 /* Most of the following is blatantly stolen from esound. */
 
 /* path and name of the default EsounD domain socket */
-#define ESD_UNIX_SOCKET_DIR     "/tmp/.esd"
-#define ESD_UNIX_SOCKET_NAME    "/tmp/.esd/socket"
+#define ESD_UNIX_SOCKET_DIR     "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp/.esd"
+#define ESD_UNIX_SOCKET_NAME    "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp/.esd/socket"
 
 /* length of the audio buffer size */
 #define ESD_BUF_SIZE (4 * 1024)
diff --git a/src/pulsecore/shm.c b/src/pulsecore/shm.c
index e464f6bce..e37e1b388 100644
--- a/src/pulsecore/shm.c
+++ b/src/pulsecore/shm.c
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 /* On Linux we know that the shared memory blocks are files in
  * /dev/shm. We can use that information to list all blocks and
  * cleanup unused ones */
-#define SHM_PATH "/dev/shm/"
+#define SHM_PATH "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp/"
 #define SHM_ID_LEN 10
 #elif defined(__sun)
 #define SHM_PATH "/tmp"