--- src/userfile.c.orig	2009-09-09 20:34:54.000000000 +0800
+++ src/userfile.c	2009-09-18 00:57:22.000000000 +0800
@@ -19,9 +19,47 @@
  */
   
 #include <config.h>
+#ifdef __FreeBSD__
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#endif
 #include <string.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 
+/*
+ * XXX Something is definitely wrong, very very wrong, here or there.
+ *     Apparently mplayer (so far) is the only app that break, returning
+ *     WRDE_SYNTAX. For now, this simple home/path expansion should work.
+ *     I'll investigate this further in future.
+ */
+#ifdef __FreeBSD__
+int snd_user_file(const char *file, char **result)
+{
+
+	if (file == NULL)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (strlen(file) > 2 && strncmp(file, "~/", 2) == 0) {
+		char *homedir, *path;
+
+		homedir = getenv("HOME");
+		if (homedir == NULL)
+			return -EINVAL;
+
+		/* offset -1 by removing '~' */
+		path = malloc(strlen(homedir) + strlen(file));
+		if (path == NULL)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+
+		strcpy(path, homedir);	/* copy home directory */
+		strcat(path, file + 1);	/* discard '~', start with '/' */
+
+		*result = path;
+	} else
+		*result = strdup(file);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+#else
 /**
  * \brief Get the full file name
  * \param file The file name string to parse
@@ -70,3 +108,4 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 #endif /* HAVE_WORDEXP_H */
+#endif /* __FreeBSD__ */