diff --git a/headphones/db.py b/headphones/db.py
index 601b6286..a1f1d96d 100644
--- a/headphones/db.py
+++ b/headphones/db.py
@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ class DBConnection:
     
         self.filename = filename
         self.connection = sqlite3.connect(dbFilename(filename), timeout=20)
+        #don't wait for the disk to finish writing
+        self.connection.execute("PRAGMA synchronous = OFF")
+        #journal disabled since we never do rollbacks
+        self.connection.execute("PRAGMA journal_mode = OFF")        
+        #64mb of cache memory,probably need to make it user configurable
+        self.connection.execute("PRAGMA cache_size=-65536")
         self.connection.row_factory = sqlite3.Row
         
     def action(self, query, args=None):